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cen·sor·ship

(sĕn′sər-shĭp′)

1. The act, process, or practice of censoring.

2. The office or authority of a Roman censor.

3. Psychology Prevention of disturbing or painful thoughts or feelings from reaching consciousness except in a disguised form.

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censorship

(ˈsɛnsəˌʃɪp)

1. a policy or programme of censoring

2. the act or system of censoring

3. (Psychoanalysis) psychoanal the activity of the mind in regulating impulses, etc, from the unconscious so that they are modified before reaching the conscious mind

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cen•sor•ship

(ˈsɛn sərˌʃɪp)

n.

1. the act or practice of censoring.

2. the office, power, or term of a censor.

[1585–95]

censorship

See: armed forces censorship; civil censorship; field press censorship; national censorship; primary censorship; prisoner of war censorship; secondary censorship.

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.

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Noun	1.	censorship - counterintelligence achieved by banning or deleting any information of value to the enemy censoring, 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 of crossing the borders of the United States or its territories or possessions 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
	2.	censorship - deleting parts of publications or correspondence or theatrical performances censoring deletion - the act of deleting something written or printed Bowdlerism - censorship in the form of prudish expurgation Comstockery - censorship because of perceived obscenity or immorality

censorship

noun expurgation, blue pencil, purgation, bowdlerization or bowdlerisation, sanitization or sanitisation The government today announced that press censorship was being lifted.

Quotations
"Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it" [Nadine Gordimer Censorship and Its Aftermath]
"God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide" [Rebecca West The Strange Necessity]
"Wherever books are burned, in the end people too will be burned" [Heinrich Heine Almansor]
"Where there is official censorship it is a sign that speech is serious" [Paul Goodman Growing Up Absurd]

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Translations

رقابةرَقابَه، مُراقَبَةُ المَطْبوعات

cenzuracenzorství

censur

sensuuri

cenzúra

ritskoîun

cenzúra

censur

sansür

审查

censorship

[ˈsensəʃɪp] N → censura f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

censorship

[ˈsɛnsə^rʃɪp] n → censure f

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

censorship

n → Zensur f; press censorship, censorship of the press → Pressezensur f

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

censorship

[ˈsɛnsəˌʃɪp] n → censura

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

censor

(ˈsensə) noun

1. an official who examines films etc and has the power to remove any of the contents which might offend people. Part of his film has been banned by the censor.

2. an official (eg in the army) who examines letters etc and removes information which the authorities do not wish to be made public for political reasons etc.

verb

This film has been censored; The soldiers' letters are censored.

cenˈsorious (-ˈsoː-) adjective

very critical. She is censorious about the behaviour of young people.

ˈcensorship noun

the policy of censoring. Some people disapprove of censorship.

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Reacting to the attacks on the Sudanese journalist and press, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Thursday condemned the recent restrictions against the newspapers in Sudan and called on the NISS to stop press censorship.

Sudan's security apparatus ban journalists from reporting

'We chose the note on press censorship precisely because it highlighted the continuing theme of press control today,' said Abraham Murad during the curatorial walkthrough.

Dehli remained part of Punjab till 1922: 'Fear and vengeance in 1857' exhibit concludes

One of those responsibilities, wartime press censorship, was considered a variant of counterintelligence, or negative intelligence as it was referred to in 1918.

Moments in MI History: The U.S. Army and the Press: Censorship In World War I

The following year, 1948, when the apartheid government came to power, marked the beginning of a period--which lasted most of the rest of his career--when press censorship laws became increasingly stringent in a bid to stop reporting on the effects of racial oppression.

"Loyalty, fair play, and all those old-fashioned things": Pippa Green, NF '99, reflects on the apartheid-era career of her late father, Michael J. Green, NF '68

This marks the first major case of reported press censorship in 2016.

Al-Masry Al-Youm retracts issue, changes critical headline on Saudi King Salman's visit

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