revision

The act of changing writing, a plan, or an idea to improve or correct it.

• The plan needs revision.
• Careful revision made the report much clearer.
• We allowed two days for revision before submitting the draft.

How to use it: revision of something (The revision of the policy took several weeks.)

Similar words: editing, reworking, correction

Common phrases: careful revision, revision of something, need revision

A changed version of a piece of writing or plan, or a particular change made to it.

• I sent you the latest revision.
• The council approved two revisions to the plan.
• This revision includes a new chapter and updated figures.

How to use it: revision to something (The editor suggested a revision to the final paragraph.)

Similar words: amendment, update, revised version

Common phrases: latest revision, new revision, revision to something

Studying things you have already learned to prepare for a test or examination.

• I have some revision to do.
• She made a revision timetable before her exams.
• How much revision have you done for tomorrow’s test?

How to use it: revision for something (I need more time for revision for my history exam.)

Similar words: review, exam preparation

Common phrases: do revision, revision timetable, revision for something

A story changed or made longer by another writer hired by its original author.

• The author hired someone to produce a revision.
• This revision adds scenes written by a second writer.
• Her revision of the story preserved the original ending.

Similar words: reworking

Common phrases: commissioned revision, story revision, revision of something

To give something a new way of being understood or imagined.

• We must revision our shared future.
• The poet revisioned the landscape through childhood memories.
• Her work revisions education as a lifelong adventure.

How to use it: revision something as something (The artist revisioned the city as a place of hope.)

Similar words: reimagine, re-envision

Common phrases: revision the future, revision society, revision something as something