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Censor

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Noun

1. censor

someone who censures or condemns

2. censor

a person who is authorized to read publications or correspondence or to watch theatrical performances and suppress in whole or in part anything considered obscene or politically unacceptable

Verb

3. ban, censor

forbid the public distribution of ( a movie or a newspaper)

4. censor

subject to political, religious, or moral censorship

Example Sentences:
'This magazine is censored by the government'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Censor

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noun
1. 
a person authorized to examine publications, theatrical presentations, films, letters, etc, in order to suppress in whole or part those considered obscene, politically unacceptable, etc
2. 
any person who controls or suppresses the behaviour of others, usually on moral grounds
3. 
(in republican Rome) either of two senior magistrates elected to keep the list of citizens up to date, control aspects of public finance, and supervise public morals
4. psychoanalysis
the postulated factor responsible for regulating the translation of ideas and desires from the unconscious to the conscious mind
See also superego
verb (transitive)
5. 
to ban or cut portions of (a publication, film, letter, etc)
6. 
to act as a censor of (behaviour, etc)

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Censor

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noun
1. 
one of two magistrates in ancient Rome appointed to take the census and, later, to supervise public morals
2. 
an official with the power to examine publications, movies, television programs, etc. and to remove or prohibit anything considered obscene, libelous, politically objectionable, etc.
3. 
an official in time of war who reads publications, mail, etc. to remove information that might be useful to the enemy
4. 
in earlier psychoanalytic theory, and still popularly, a part of the unconscious that serves as the agent of censorship
verb transitive
5. 
to subject (a book, writer, etc.) to censorship

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Censor

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n.
1. A person authorized to examine books, films, or other material and to remove or suppress what is considered morally, politically, or otherwise objectionable.
2. An official, as in the armed forces, who examines personal mail and official dispatches to remove information considered secret or a risk to security.
3. One that condemns or censures.
4. One of two officials in ancient Rome responsible for taking the public census and supervising public behavior and morals.
5. Psychology The component of the unconscious that is posited by psychoanalytic theory to be responsible for preventing certain thoughts or feelings from reaching the conscious mind.
tr.v. cen·sored, cen·sor·ing, cen·sors
To examine and expurgate.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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