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CENSORING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does censoring mean?
• CENSORING (noun)
The noun CENSORING has 2 senses:
1. counterintelligence achieved by banning or deleting any information of value to the enemy
2. deleting parts of publications or correspondence or theatrical performances
Familiarity information: CENSORING used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Counterintelligence achieved by banning or deleting any information of value to the enemy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
censoring; censorship; security review
Hypernyms ("censoring" is a kind of...):
counterintelligence (intelligence activities concerned with identifying and counteracting the threat to security posed by hostile intelligence organizations or by individuals engaged in espionage or sabotage or subversion or terrorism)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "censoring"):
military censorship (all types of censorship conducted by personnel of the armed forces)
national censorship (censorship under civil authority of communications entering or leaving or crossing the borders of the United States or its territories or possessions)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Deleting parts of publications or correspondence or theatrical performances
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
censoring; censorship
Hypernyms ("censoring" is a kind of...):
deletion (the act of deleting something written or printed)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "censoring"):
Bowdlerism (censorship in the form of prudish expurgation)
Comstockery (censorship because of perceived obscenity or immorality)
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