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

Noun

the practice or policy of censoring films, letters, or publications

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

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

Translations

censorship [ˈsɛnsəʃɪp] n → censura

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censorship [ˈsɛnsəʃɪp] censor n → censure f

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censorship [ˈsɛnsəʃɪp] censor n → Zensur f

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censorship [ˈsɛnsəʃɪp] n → censura