drafter

draft +‎ -er

• Rhymes: -ɑːftə(ɹ), -æftə(ɹ)

drafter (plural drafters)

1. A person who prepares technical drawings and plans.
2. A person who prepares drafts.
   • 2022 August 10, Jim Steer, “We're riding the wrong horse”, in RAIL, number 963, page 46:

     Departmental drafters have done their best to explain in the June report what's happened, but obviously can't write about the politics that led to Golborne being dropped. Instead, they refer to the Government's Union Connectivity Review [...].

3. (US) A person who writes a legislative bill.

• draughtsman

• “drafter”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

• redraft