Op-ed

Quick meaning: Op-ed is a noun meaning Of or being a newspaper page, usually opposite the editorial page, that features signed articles expressing personal viewpoints.

Meaning

Of or being a newspaper page, usually opposite the editorial page, that features signed articles expressing personal viewpoints.

More Meanings

1. Of an article, written in a style suitable for publication as an op-ed.
2. Of a person, regularly expressing viewpoints by means of op-eds.
3. (ambitransitive, rare) To write an op-ed article.
4. A newspaper page containing signed articles by commentators expressing viewpoints that may not agree with those espoused by the editorial board, traditionally printed opposite the editorial page.

Example Sentences

For a more ‘op ed’ approach to the current state of the Hong Kong art scene see my recent article "Doer's Droop," South China Morning Post, August 23, 2005, C6.

Descriptions of him vary from "aggressively intelligent," "inventive," "articulate," "the most ‘op-ed’ academic in the field of education" to "arrogant" "combative," "hostile," and "dismissive" of ideas not his own.

The purpose of an op-ed is to offer an opinion. It is not a news analysis or a weighing up of alternative views. It requires a clear thesis, backed by rigorously marshaled evidence, in the service of a persuasive argument.

The question was probably bottomed on a combination of phrases in a Washington Post op-ed article that appeared not three months before by Richard Haass, who was a foreign-policy adviser in both Bush administrations and is now president of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Word Forms

• op-eds
• op-edding
• op-edded

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include rostrum, items, editorial, viewspaper, editorializing, advertorial.

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