Definition of stet in English:
stet
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verbverb stets, verb stetting, verb stetted
no object, in imperative1Let it stand (used as an instruction on a printed proof to indicate that a correction or alteration should be ignored).
- ‘I am discreetly edited out; and there is no one to write, stet!’
- 1.1with object Write an instruction to stet against (something corrected or deleted).‘The school's hard-nosed rector had to clear the script beforehand, but he censored only obscenities, stetting even the most merciless satirical slices.’
- ‘She'll probably stet or otherwise reject all those changes.’
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noun
An instruction to stet made on a printed proof.
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Origin
Latin, ‘let it stand’, from stare ‘to stand’.
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