[
UK
/sˈɛnsɐ/
]
[ US /ˈsɛnsɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈsɛnsɝ/ ]
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
- someone who censures or condemns
VERB
- forbid the public distribution of ( a movie or a newspaper)
-
subject to political, religious, or moral censorship
This magazine is censored by the government
How To Use censor In A Sentence
- During this period, the Ontario Board of Censors was known to be the most liberal of all the provincial boards, and O.J. Silverthorne was the most respected film censor in Canada.
- In these two cases, the UK is exactly equidistant from the tolerance of France and the censoriousness of the US.
- The current documents are the same, but now uncensored.
- To allow only views acceptable to the government of the day is the path to centralised conformity and censorship. Times, Sunday Times
- This keeps getting censored by the Lamontster scrub out the truth squads .. he has to protect his propagandists for hire, as he's too chickenhearted to let the CT voters decide for themselves CT-SEN: Lamont Hits Back At Lieberman Terror Slam
- Censorial ministry website issues announcement, announce the country prevents corrupt bureau website to debut formally.
- Over the years, the giant retailer, in exercising its own brand of censorship, has forced recording artists to change lyrics, 'sanitize' album covers, removed certain 'objectionable' magazines from its racks, and generally cultivated its own corporate sense of what the public should or shouldn't see. Al Norman: Wal-Mart Picks Free Speech Fight with Union
- As institutionalized censorship defines real experience by what it disallows, we assume the unseeable must be more real that our own perceptions, holding secret truths known only to higher powers.
- Last month, Najib said the government would establish a bi- partisan parliamentary committee to review changes to electoral rules, and that authorities would also consider amending laws governing censorship of print media. BusinessWeek.com -- Top News
- Internet use in China has quadrupled since 2000 and ultimately censorship may prove futile.