Censorship

Noun

 * 1) The use of state or group power to control freedom of expression, such as passing laws to prevent media from being published or propagated.

Adjectives for Censorship
moralistic; strict; recent; rigid; vague; effective; religious; powerful; insidious; official; actual; iron; voluntary; rigorous.

Verbs for Censorship
announce—; clamp down—; concoct—; enforce—; establish—; exercise—; impose—; indicate—; institute—; pass—; practise—; submit to—; tighten—; —cuts; —militates; —outlaws; —prevails; —slashes; —supervises; —suppresses.

Related terms

 * bleep censor
 * censor
 * censorware
 * media democracy
 * moral panic

Thesaurus
repression, resistance, restraint, seal of secrecy, security, smashing, smothering, squashing, squelching, stifling, strangling, striking, subdual, suffocating, suppression, throttling, veil, veil of secrecy, wraps, 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,

Etymology
censor + -ship

Translations

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 * Japanese: 検閲 (ken'etsu)


 * Korean: 검열 (geomyeor)
 * Latin: censura, (of literature) literarum censura
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 * Russian: цензура
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 * Serbo-Croatian: cenzura
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Anagrams

 * sensorchip
 * sphericons