Look up: censorship

1. censorship
   Suppression by authority of material considered immoral, heretical, subversive, libellous, damaging to state security, or otherwise offensive. It is generally more strict under totalitarian...
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2. Censorship
   The prohibition of the production, distribution, circulation, or access to a work on the grounds that it contains politically or morally offensive material
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3. censorship
   The practice of examining certain works with the aim of assessing their suitability and appropriateness for certain groups of people (often children or teenagers) and with making changes deemed necessary according to the legal or moral standards operating at the time. The organisation responsible fo...
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4. censorship
   psychoanalytic term for the coercive influence of the ego and the super-ego upon the...impulses of the id.. Category: Medicine
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5. censorship
   There is no censorship on the Internet. Parents and schools have to use software to filter out disturbing or indecent material or the filtering provided by the ISP. There are problems with this, though. E.g. a certain level of 'protection' may prevent a student from gaining access to useful websites of academic interest purely because of the word c …
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6. Censorship
   Cen'sor·ship noun The office or power of a censor; as, to stand for a censorship . Holland. « The press was not indeed at that moment under a general censorship . Macaulay. »
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7. censorship
   noun counterintelligence achieved by banning or deleting any information of value to the enemy
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8. censorship
   (sen´sәr-ship) the action of the censor.
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9. Censorship
   • (n.) The office or power of a censor; as, to stand for a censorship.
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10. censorship
    the changing or the suppression or prohibition of speech or writing that is condemned as subversive of the common good. It occurs in all ... [61 related articles]
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11. censorship
    censorship 1. Counterintelligence achieved by banning or deleting any information of value to the enemy. 2. The deletion or suppression of all or part of a play, movie, letter, or publication considered offensive. 3. The suppression or attempted suppression of something regarded as objectionable. ...
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12. Censorship
    Denial of access to particular information based on moral, ethical, religious, or political motivations
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13. censorship
    censorship, official prohibition or restriction of any type of expression believed to threaten the political, social, or moral order. It may be imposed by governmental authority, local or national, by a religious body, or occasionally by a powerful private group. It may be applied to the mails, spee...
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14. Censorship
    The process of determining what can or can not be viewed by the public or depicted by the motion picture industry. Related to this concept of course is the rating system. (See `Rating,` `G-Rated,` `NC-17,` `PG-Rated,` `PG-13,` `PG-17,` `R-Rated,` and `X-Rated.`)
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15. censorship
    (general) Suppression by authority of material considered immoral, heretical, subversive, libellous, damaging to state security, or otherwise offensive. It is generally more strict under totalitarian (one-party) or strongly-religious regimes, and in wartime. Concerns over the ready ava...
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16. censorship
    suppressing books, plays, music, newspapers, speech, etc. because they are considered morally or politically objectionable.
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