Usually means: Control or suppression of information.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word censorship:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. censorship: Merriam-Webster
  2. censorship: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. censorship: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. censorship: Collins English Dictionary
  5. censorship: Vocabulary.com
  6. Censorship, censorship: Wordnik
  7. censorship: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. censorship: Wiktionary
  9. censorship: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. censorship: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. censorship: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. censorship: Dictionary.com
  13. censorship: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Censorship (psychoanalysis), Censorship: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Censorship: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. censorship: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. censorship: Rhymezone
  18. censorship: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. censorship: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. censorship: FreeDictionary.org
  21. censorship: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. censorship: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. censorship: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. censorship: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Encyclopedia of Television (No longer online)
  3. Movie Terminology Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. censorship: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. censorship: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. censorship: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. censorship: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. censorship: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Political (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  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.
noun:  (historical) The role of the censor (magistrate) in Ancient Rome.

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