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declassify, v.|diːˈklæsɪfaɪ|
[f. de- II. 1 + classify v.]
trans. To undo the action of classification; spec. to remove (information, etc.) from the category of being ‘classified’ (see classified ppl. a. c). So declassiˈfiable a., deˌclassifiˈcation, deˈclassified ppl. a.
1865Grote Plato II. xxiv. 246 Logical exposition proceeding by way of classifying and declassifying. 1946Nature 14 Sept. 355/2 Much of the nuclear research material..is now declassifiable and provision has been made for revision of the rules for declassification of the secret documents. 1946Rep. Internat. Control Atomic Energy iv. 53 This Committee was directed to report on a policy of declassification—that is disclosure—of scientific and technical material now classified as Secret. 1948Birmingham (Ala.) News 21 Dec. 14/6 Forrestal asked Adm. Souers and Gen. Gruenther to ‘declassify’ it (make it non-secret) immediately. 1951Economist 13 Oct. 864/1 No effective machinery is created for ‘declassifying’ secret information. 1953Encounter Oct. 58/2 In the United States, the entire declassification procedure, by which work of potential military value is sifted and eventually tossed into the open, was devised by the scientists themselves. 1955Bull. Atomic Sci. Apr. 145/3 Even the handling of declassified documents can cause trouble. |