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censorship Definition

cen·sor·ship (sensər s̸hip′)

noun

  1. the act, system, or practice of censoring
  2. the office or term of a Roman censor
  3. Psychoanalysis the agency by which unpleasant ideas, memories, etc. are kept from entering consciousness, except symbolically as in dreams

censorship Synonyms

censorship

n.

censoring, suppression, licensing, restriction, forbidding, controlling the press, governmental control, security blackout, news blackout, thought control, the censor's blue pencil, expurgation, bowdlerization, editing, deletion, bleeping; see also restraint 2.

censorship Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • press: He also protested against the renewal of the censorship of the press in 1694.
  • Internet: Increasingly deployed in totalitarian countries with excessive censorship of the internet.

Converse of object

  • impose: But that evidence clearly does not exist, and therefore you are wrong to want to see censorship imposed on me.
  • oppose: Throughout its existence, the Writers ' Guild of Great Britain has opposed censorship in all its guises.
  • justify: The ' negative ' concept of media freedom prohibits political censorship only to justify economic censorship.
  • remember: But we must do it remembering censorship is a fiction.

Adjective modifier

  • preventive: The 1920 War against Soviet Russia brought the introduction of preventive censorship in defense of military secrets.
  • blatant: A case of blatant political censorship against those who dared question the council line?
  • attempted: For me, such attempted censorship was totally unacceptable.
  • strict: Strict censorship was used to make sure that opposing views were neither seen nor heard.
  • heavy: Initially, despite heavy censorship, he was able to give his audience some glimmer of the truth.
  • political: A case of blatant political censorship against those who dared question the council line?

Modifies a noun

  • law: CEO Eric Schmidt also answered critics who gave the company a hard time for agreeing to Chinese censorship laws.
  • attempt: You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14 yr old boy.

Noun used with modifier

  • wartime: Additionally, wartime press censorship successfully limited public knowledge about the executions.
  • Internet: Internet censorship can never be an act of public good.
  • self: Things must be far advanced for the Defense Secretary to practice self censorship.
  • press: Press censorship was the great issue of the day.
  • theater: The unity Theaters movement grew as a direct response to the theater censorship being exercised as directed by the Lord Chamberlain.
  • medium: Media censorship has resurfaced where we thought it had been extinguished.

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