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English

Etymology

From rewrite +‎ -er.

Noun

rewriter (plural rewriters)

  1. One who, or that which, rewrites.
    • 1983 November 20, Haskell Nordon, “ON JAMES MICHENER'S 'POLAND'”, in The New York Times‎:
      On the threshold of 1984, Communist rewriters of history have scored a significant victory in their longtime effort to erase inconvenient individuals and events from the chronicle of modern times.
    • 2009 April 16, Charles McGrath, “Sex and Crime, the Updates: Gay Talese Is Back on the Beat”, in The New York Times‎:
      Part of why both books dragged on so long is that Mr. Talese, who once worked for The New York Times, is a perfectionist, an obsessive tinkerer and rewriter, and also a famously meticulous reporter and researcher who spurns devices like composite characters and faked identities.
  2. (computing) Part of a compiler that makes a second pass to fix the generated object code by implementing postconditions, patching in calls or pointers to point to the correct locations, etc.
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French

Pronunciation

Noun

rewriter m (plural rewriters)

  1. (computing) rewriter

Verb

rewriter

  1. (computing) to rewrite

Conjugation

Conjugation of rewriter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
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