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cen·sor
/ ˈsensər/
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n.
1.
an official who examines material that is about to be released, such as books, movies, news, and art, and suppresses any parts that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security.
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Psychoanalysis
an aspect of the superego that is said to prevent certain ideas and memories from emerging into consciousness.
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(in ancient Rome) either of two magistrates who held censuses and supervised public morals.
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v. [tr.] (often be censored)
examine (a book, movie, etc.) officially and suppress unacceptable parts of it.
DERIVATIVES:
cen·so·ri·al
/ senˈsôrēəl/ adj.
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New technologies erode Israeli army censor's grip
News Wire article from: AP Online; 4/20/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...defense budget, and stories about the censor. The censor removed from this story a reference to...whether to submit stories and pictures to the censor. During the Persian Gulf War, however, censors were stationed around-the-clock at...
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Hitchcock and the Censors.(Alfred Hitchcock)
Magazine article from: World and I; 8/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...British Board of Film Censors scoured new motion pictures...understood. The chief British censor wore glasses with one...Hitchcock loved to kid the censors, yet he worked hard...screenplays and films censor-proof. He nonetheless...alleged clashes with the censors as fodder to promote...
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Confessions of an Irish censor: why Clark Gable, 'Casablanca' and Cliff got the chop
Newspaper article from: Belfast Telegraph; 3/6/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...classics that incurred the censors' wrath. Such seemingly inoffensive...completely banned. Dublin's censors sliced through celluloid with...In one famous instance, censors in the staunchly Catholic country...developed," says the current censor, John Kelleher. "The old...
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 "Irish Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland)")
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Censor calls 'cut' on role as moral guardian of movies.
Magazine article from: Irish Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland); 1/7/2008; 682 words
; Censor calls 'cut' on role as moral guardian...four porn films last year THE IRISH Film Censor's Office will remove the "censorship...of its powers last year. The modern Film Censor has come a long way from sparing our blushes...
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Censors haunted by images
Newspaper article from: Sunday Star-Times; 8/11/2002; ; 564 words
; FILM censors are turning to psychologists...banned movies. Chief censor Bill Hastings said all 14 censors had sought help. The...agrees. As chief film censor from 1991 to 1994, Wrightson...psychological help for today's censors.
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Mothers Censor Viewing Habits Of Children 14 And Younger, According To A Decision Analyst Study.
Business Wire; 5/3/2005; 691 words
; ...children aged 14 and younger regularly censor the television shows, online offerings...eight years old and younger regularly censor their children's television viewing...with children aged nine to 12 regularly censor television viewing, while 71 percent...
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The Manila Envelope, Please...; Philippine Censors Ban Another Award-Winning Movie
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 6/16/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...When we last left the Philippine movie censors, they were under siege for demanding...winner of three Oscars, which the censors effectively banned as "immoral." Both...Review and Classification Board, as the censors' panel is officially known, has remained...
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Censor Board explains fees.
News Wire article from: UNB - United News of Bangladesh; 1/11/2008; 533 words
; ...11 (Dhaka Courier): The Bangladesh Film Censor Board has given its explanation about the censor fee for holding any international film festival...Bangladesh Censorship of Film Rules 1977, the censor certificate is necessary for public exhibition...
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Censor lifts veil on Syria air strike, but only partially
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 10/3/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Jerusalem Post 10-03-2007 Headline: Censor lifts veil on Syria air strike, but only...country on September 6, Israel's military censor began Tuesday to allow the local media...their report to foreign sources. The censor did not release any details for publication...
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`SNL' and the Censors; NBC Holds the Line Against Controversy
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 10/7/1987; ; 700+ words
; ...never get past network censors now. At least one network censor agrees. "Saturday...practice. Network censors took a new approach...summer because the censor demanded sketches be...seduce a blind man. Censors wanted it removed from...
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censor
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
censor supervisor of morals, etc. XVI. — L. cēnsor , f. cēnsēre pronounce as an opinion, assess, judge. Hence censor vb. XIX. So censure †judgement XIV; adverse judgement XVII...
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Censorship
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...Sciences the right to censor its publications, as...serve as preliminary censors. Alarmed by the French...the author, not the censor, responsible should...fell on the approving censor). A Foreign Censorship...right — through censors chosen from ecclesiastical...
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She Done Him Wrong
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...whose contempt for all proprieties and censors was so manifest), Mae West asserted...for a time so enormous that the movie censors waited to put her in her place, or rather the place the censors thought she ought to occupy. Eventually...
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Visconti, Luchino
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...and he would remain a Marxist until his death. Censors and Church Denounced First Film Back in Italy...even though it ran into trouble with Fascist censors for its "obscenity." The censors objected to Visconti's steamy depiction of...
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Mae West
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...films and plays the frequent target of censors. West also wrote and produced several...hundred dollars per week. Plays Caught Censors' Attention In 1926, West wrote a play...Sinner in 1931, were also targeted by the censors; Pleasure Man was closed by the police...
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