censorship (redirected from Government censorship)

cen·sor·ship  (snsr-shp)

n.

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]

n

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

Thesaurus

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

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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]

Translations

censorship [ˈsensəʃɪp] N → censura f

censorship [ˈsɛnsə^rʃɪp] n → censure f

censorship

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

censorship [ˈsɛnsəˌʃɪp] n → censura