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词汇 censorship
释义 censorship
noun[ U ]
uk /ˈsen.sə.ʃɪp/ us /ˈsen.sɚ.ʃɪp/
the action of preventing part or the whole of a book, film, work of art, document, or other kind of communication from being seen or made available to the public, because it is considered to be offensive or harmful, or because it contains information that someone wishes to keep secret, often for political reasons: 审查,审查制度
censorship of the press新闻审查制度
a system in which an authority limits the ideas that people are allowed to express and prevents books, films, works of art, documents, or other kinds of communication from being seen or made available to the public, because they include or support certain ideas:
Civil libertarians say that the ruling amounts to censorship.
She called TV news censorship of violent news "hypocritical".
Some websites are subject to government censorship.
We do not advocate the censorship of artistic expression.
There has always been movie censorship since the first films were created to be seen by the masses.
They started a petition asking the government to abandon plans for internet censorship.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Forbidding and banning things
abolish
abolition
abolitionist
anti-censorship
ban
decertification
decertify
deny something to someone
disallow
disqualification
off-limits
out of boundsidiom
outlaw
prohibit
prohibition
unauthorized
unkosher
unsanctioned
verboten
veto

censorship | American Dictionary


censorship
noun[ U ]
us/ˈsen·sərˌʃɪp/
the practice of censoring:
Artists and critics accused him of censorship.

Examples of censorship


censorship
With a reference list of literary works, munication networks, and new approaches to story resources to fight censorship, and three appendices telling.
They often undertook the elimination of censorship rather than enter costly legal battles to preserve the practice.
Nevertheless, and perhaps surprisingly, the central liberty principle admits censorship of certain extraordinary types of expression which necessarily harm others.
It had to assume traditional functions: censorship, social security for writers, and also a 'moral protection' of literature, as in the case of cinematographic adaptations.
Her analysis reveals that the regime depended on several pieces of legislation to justify censorship.
Determining what information searches are blocked by the government is a useful gauge to censorship.
Unlike a prosecution for obscenity, a censorship proceeding assigns the burden of proof to the exhibitor or distributor.
Without the scar, the censoring machinery operates invisibly; with it, a trace remains by which the censorship can be seen as such.
In addition, it seems that a censorship had been conducted when the records of the war were compiled.
The "necessary evils" of social purity and censorship must be credited in part for our perception of individual writers and their literary legacy.
Censorship of the press applied as much to news and information as to political opinions during this period.
Open censorship of such divines was thus not only undesirable, but might not in fact be necessary.
Illuminating the documents are volume, chapter and source overviews, giving useful information on matters such as newspaper circulation numbers, censorship and reporting conditions.
He believes that lack of clarity over rights is leading to covert censorship of the circulation of ideas.
Historians have commonly distinguished censorship as a policy from its enforcement.
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Collocations withcensorship


censorship

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censorship board
Instead, local chapters supported suits brought by their members or other willing parties against police and censorshipboard acts and supported suits by film distributors.
film censorship
I recognise the importance of the question of the efficiency of filmcensorship.
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form of censorship
I utterly reject this dictatorial concept, which is only another formofcensorship.
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