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Meaning censor meaning

What does censor mean?

censor

— noun 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 — noun someone who censures or condemns — verb subject to political, religious, or moral censorship This magazine is censored by the government — verb (= ban) forbid the public distribution of ( a movie or a newspaper)

Synonyms censor synonyms

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censor English » English

inspector expurgate examine ban reproof reprimand rebuke inspect faultfinder examiner verify the news ticket collector tally clerk take a census surveyor scanner reviewer review remonstrator prober oversee judge forbid expurgator edit criticiser critic corrector controller comptroller checker check censorship bowdlerizer bowdlerize bowdleriser bowdlerise black out auditor audit adjustor adjuster

Topics censor topics

What do people use censor to talk about?
Language and thought Communication Reading and writing

Publish
Social behavior Conflict Peace

Rebuke

Conjugation censor conjugation

How do you conjugate censor?

censor · verb

Examples censor examples

How do I use censor in a sentence?

Simple sentences

It'd be very convenient if we could censor this kind of comment.
This article has to go through the censor's office.
I don't censor their articles.
I don't censor your articles.

Movie subtitles

Missing titles were added with the aid of the censor's certificate from December 16th, 1926 that the Deutsche Filminstitut. DIF provided.
They can censor us because of it. Do whatever you want behind the curtains, but not in front of them.
With the help of the censor records these errors have been corrected.
When the censor snips up to this extent, it seems pretty critical.
I suggest that you see the chief censor about this book.
Chief censor, over there.
They can't censor our memories, can they?
There's no censor to stop them.
There was no censor to stop them.
That's a matter for the censor.
Nowhere if you censor your thoughts.
Take the censor off guard.
If I say we're coming home, they'll censor it out.
What you are about to hear, the enemy commander will be unable to censor or screen from his crew.
I think the censor will let it through.
Did you censor his mail?
A slave may be freed by emancipation before a praetor, inscription in the censor's record,...testament on death of master or declaration before witnesses.
Don't censor it!
Hope the censor liked my letter.
The Geneva convention permits us to censor the letters of prisoners.
I MUST AGREE WITH THE CENSOR.
He's more like a damn military censor!
Vincente Minnelli brought her story to the screen. and framed it in the history of Flaubert's fight. against those who sought to censor his masterpiece.
We censor our young people too much.
You're a self-appointed censor only on stories involving big advertisers.
I would censor my dreams if I could.
Who fights more with the censor?
What has the censor got to do with it?
You can be sure the British won't censor that.
I do not censor things lightly.
Oh, censor, censor, censor.
My censor quit two years ago.

News and current affairs

Indeed, although the Internet's coverage in China has been expanding steadily, the Communist Party's ability to censor it has grown even faster, thanks to Western technology.
Even those who consider it economically necessary censor themselves, because they believe it to be politically impossible.
But to attribute the performance of Russian business to the efforts of the state is the same as attributing a writer's work to his editor, or even to his censor.
To some extent, everyone will benefit from this, because governments will be less able to censor information.
Instead, they repress, censor, silence and even imprison the moderates and appease the religious radicals.
We should all bear this in mind, for territorial ambition often goes hand in hand with the censor's creed.
No British governmental institution would have invited the chief Soviet censor as its guest of honor at an event celebrating Russian literature.
They are not willing to fight for greater freedom of speech and are even willing to censor each other in order to preserve what they have.

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