censorship
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sərˌʃɪp
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Censorship
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
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| —n | |
| 1. | a policy or programme of censoring |
| 2. | the act or system of censoring |
| 3. | psychoanal the activity of the mind in regulating impulses, etc, from the unconscious so that they are modified before reaching the conscious mind |
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Example sentences
The best remedy for vile speech is better speech not censorship.
To those who cry free speech, remember that this isn't censorship we're talking about here.
History tells us that they were twice consuls together, and colleagues in the censorship.
Writers from all over the world had gathered to discuss issues of censorship and freedom of speech.
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