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censorship
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun censorship has 2 senses
- censorship(n = noun.act) censoring, security review - counterintelligence achieved by banning or deleting any information of value to the enemy; Array has particulars: military censorship, national censorship
- censorship(n = noun.act) censoring - deleting parts of publications or correspondence or theatrical performances; Array is a kind of deletion
is a kind of counterintelligence
has particulars: bowdlerism, comstockery
Derived form noun censor2
CIDE DICTIONARY
censorship, n.
The office or power of a censor; as, to stand for a censorship. Holland. [1913 Webster]
"The press was not indeed at that moment under a general censorship."
[1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
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
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