单词 | declassify |
释义 | declassifyv. transitive. To undo the action of classification; spec. to remove (information, etc.) from the category of being ‘classified’ (see classified adj.1 3). ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > publish or spread abroad [verb (transitive)] > declassify information disclassifya1866 declassify1948 1865 G. Grote Plato II. xxiv. 246 Logical exposition proceeding by way of classifying and declassifying. 1948 Birmingham (Alabama) News 21 Dec. 14/6 Forrestal asked Adm. Souers and Gen. Gruenther to ‘declassify’ it (make it non-secret) immediately. 1951 Economist 13 Oct. 864/1 No effective machinery is created for ‘declassifying’ secret information. Derivatives declassiˈfiable adj. ΚΠ 1946 Nature 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. deˌclassifiˈcation n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > [noun] > declassification of information declassification1946 1946 Rep. 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. 1953 Encounter 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. deˈclassified adj. ΚΠ 1955 Bull. Atomic Scientists Apr. 145/3 Even the handling of declassified documents can cause trouble. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < v.1865 |
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