censorship

English

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Etymology

From censor +‎ -ship.

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ˈsɛnsəˌʃɪp/, X-SAMPA: /"sEns@%SIp/
• (GenAm) IPA: /ˈsɛnsɚˌʃɪp/, X-SAMPA: /"sEns@`%SIp/
• Hyphenation: cen‧sor‧ship

Noun

censorship (countable and uncountable; plural censorships)

1. The use of state or group power to control freedom of expression, such as passing laws to prevent media from being published or propagated.
   • 1899, Arthur Christopher Benson, The life of Edward White Benson, sometime Archbishop of Canterbury: Volume 1

     such a curious thing — it is the only thing left of the old censorship of the press."

   I think that censorship is an admission that you have lost an argument

Related terms

• bleep censor
• censor
• censorware
• media democracy
• moral panic

Translations

use of state or group power to control freedom of expression

• Arabic: رقابة (ar) (raqqaaba(t)) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: trad. 審查, simpl. 审查 (pinyin: shěnchá), trad. 檢查, simpl. 检查 (pinyin: jiǎnchá)

• Czech: cenzura (cs) f
• Dutch: censuur (nl)
• Finnish: sensuuri (fi)
• French: censure (fr) f
• German: Zensur (de) f
• Greek: λογοκρισία (el) (logokrisia)
• Hungarian: cenzúra (hu)
• Japanese: 検閲 (ja) (ken'etsu)

• Korean: 검열 (ko) (geomyeor)
• Latin: censura (la), (of literature) literarum censura (la)
• Polish: cenzura (pl) f
• Portuguese: censura (pt)
• Russian: цензура (ru) (cenzúra) f
• Scottish Gaelic: caisgireachd (gd) f
• Serbo-Croatian: cenzura (sh)
• Spanish: censura (es)
• Swedish: censur (sv)
• Turkish: sansür (tr), sıkıdenetim (tr)

Anagrams

• sensorchip
• sphericons