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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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He was accused of "taking part in conversations against the censorship, of reading a letter from Byelinsky to Gogol, and of knowing of the intention to set up a printing press." Under Nicholas I.

He started a journal-- "Vremya," which was forbidden by the Censorship through a misunderstanding.

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Actually, I seem to find another hand at work, another hand which works with the censorship, too.

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Then the first thing will be to establish a censorship of the writers of fiction, and let the censors receive any tale of fiction which is good, and reject the bad; and we will desire mothers and nurses to tell their children the authorised ones only.

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Many of us do not believe in a world of the unconscious (a few of us even have grave doubts about the usefulness of the term consciousness), hence we try to explain censorship along ordinary biological lines.

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She groped for knowledge in old books, and found it in repulsive chunks, but she did not naturally care for books and thus never troubled her head about the censorship which was exercised first by her aunts, later by her father.

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If the section on the censorship so foolishly introduced into the new charter had been omitted, journalism also would have had its Saint-Merri.

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There is no geographical centre of censorship; it is practiced on every continent by countries of all persuasions--democracies, electoral democracies, autocratizing former democracies, and autocracies--but would naturally arise more often, more easily, and more pervasively as one moves from left (real democracies, in which there are usually institutions that can prevent censorship) to right (autocracies, in which censorship is arbitrary and decided without institutional restraint ) on that political spectrum.

The wages of censorship

Internet censorship is a reality that users in many places around the world face on a regular basis.

INTERNET CENSORSHIP IN OMAN

The deal might be complicated because Reddit is currently blocked in China by its censorship regime, in which Tencent plays a key role, according to tech website Gizmodo.

Bid by China's Tencent for Reddit provokes concerns about censorship

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Speaking on the occasion journalists expressed their concerns over censorship, media freedom, expulsion of workers from the media house and ban on advertisement and termed government want to control media through advertisement which is not acceptable act and demanded the government to take back the potential censorship, curbs on media freedom decision while media owners should pay remained salaries to workers on time.

Journo records protest against curbs on media freedom, censorship and expulsion of workers from media outlets

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