Definition of "subeditor"

subeditor

noun
plural subeditors
1. An assistant editor, usually in a specific department of a newspaper.
2. (UK) A copy editor at a newspaper or magazine.
  Quotations
  Sub-editors. Bastards. What about all that copy of his they'd cut? Fifteen years of research he'd filed from one planet alone and they'd cut it to two words. ‘Mostly harmless.’
  1992, Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), page 96