About The Word Censorship

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Censorship

Censorship Meaning & Definition
Censorship Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Censorship?

[n] deleting parts of publications or correspondence or theatrical performances
[n] counterintelligence achieved by banning or deleting any information of value to the enemy

Synonyms | Synonyms for Censorship: censoring | security review

Related Terms | Find terms related to Censorship: abbreviation | abridgment | bamboo curtain | barrier of secrecy | blackout | block | blockage | blocking | blue-penciling | bowdlerization | cancellation | censoring | crackdown | crushing | curtain | deletion | editing | erasure | expurgation | extinguishment | hush-up | inhibition | iron curtain | ironbound security | oath of secrecy | official secrecy | omission | pall | psychological block | putting down | quashing | quelling | quenching | repression | resistance | restraint | seal of secrecy | security | smashing | smothering | squashing | squelching | stifling | strangling | striking | subdual | suffocating | suppression | throttling | veil | veil of secrecy | wraps

See Also | Bowdlerism | Comstockery | counterintelligence | deletion | military censorship | national censorship

Censorship In Webster's Dictionary

\Cen"sor*ship\, n. The office or power of a censor; as, to stand for a censorship. --Holland. The press was not indeed at that moment under a general censorship. --Macaulay.

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