censorship

censorship
    n 1: counterintelligence achieved by banning or deleting any
         information of value to the enemy [syn: {censoring},
         {censorship}, {security review}]
    2: deleting parts of publications or correspondence or
       theatrical performances [syn: {censoring}, {censorship}]
    

Censorship \Cen"sor*ship\, n.
   The office or power of a censor; as, to stand for a
   censorship. --Holland.
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         The press was not indeed at that moment under a general
         censorship.                              --Macaulay.
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52 Moby Thesaurus words for "censorship":
      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,
      repression, resistance, restraint, seal of secrecy, security,
      smashing, smothering, squashing, squelching, stifling, strangling,
      striking, subdual, suffocating, suppression, throttling, veil,
      veil of secrecy, wraps