REDACTED: You might be forgiven for thinking that a pterodactyl has just brought up his luncheon on your tax returns. Or spewed on your spreadsheets. In truth it is what our MPs started doing with their expense claims: redacting them, preparing them for publication by revising and shortening them.
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Forget the Latin terminology. We are living in the 21st Century after all. In this modern day to redact is to cover up by censorial black strips anything embarrassing, questionable and fraudulent. Think nipples on knockers. They have been redacted in many publications unless you are purchasing from the Top Shelf.
Millions of black permanent markers must have been bought by MPs to redact their receipts before submitting them for publication. MPs are redacting them, making them shorter by editing out any personal information, such as their addresses, or any extraneous information, such as details of private purchases that share the same receipt as details of public purchases
I bet they put the cost of those black-out methods on expenses too. And after all that blather from Gordon Moron Clown Brown to be more transparent in Parliament. He is TOAST. Burnt toast still lodged in the toaster that is Parliament.
kevinwilson
Pro 
jargon serves a very useful purpose doesn't it - perhaps the true definition of it is 'camouflage'!