censorship
The use of state or group power to control freedom of expression or press, such as passing laws to prevent undesirable media from being published or propagated.
Other meanings
The role of the censor magistrate in Ancient Rome.
Related words
- anticensorship
- cybercensorship
- decensorship
- noncensorship
- precensorship
- recensorship
- semicensorship
- uncensorship
- corporate censorship
- cosmic censorship
- cosmic censorship hypothesis
- self-censorship
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This definition is adapted from “censorship” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.