Censorship

n.

1.

The office or power of a censor; as, to stand for a censorship. The press was not indeed at that moment under a general censorship. - Macaulay.

Noun	1.	censorship - counterintelligence achieved by banning or deleting any information of value to the enemy Synonyms: censoring, security review
	2.	censorship - deleting parts of publications or correspondence or theatrical performances Synonyms: censoring

abbreviation, abridgment, bamboo curtain, barrier of secrecy, blackout, block, blockage, blocking, blue-penciling, bowdlerization, cancellation, censoring, crackdown, crushing, curtain, deletion, editing, erasure, expurgation, extinguishment, hush-up, inhibition, iron curtain, ironbound security, oath of secrecy, official secrecy, omission, pall, psychological block, putting down, quashing, quelling, quenching, repression, resistance, restraint, seal of secrecy, security, smashing, smothering, squashing, squelching, stifling, strangling, striking, subdual, suffocating, suppression, throttling, veil, veil of secrecy, wraps

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