SECURITY REVIEW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does security review mean? 

• SECURITY REVIEW (noun)
  The noun SECURITY REVIEW has 1 sense:

1. counterintelligence achieved by banning or deleting any information of value to the enemy

  Familiarity information: SECURITY REVIEW used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SECURITY REVIEW (noun)

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 ("security review" 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 "security review"):

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)