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redacted
[ ri-dak-tid ]
adjective
- (of a document) with confidential or sensitive information removed or hidden:
If a court decision contains protected information, it may not be released immediately due to the need to prepare a redacted version.
- (of text, images, or information) removed, obscured, or hidden from view:
Under this ruling, state agencies must provide an explanation for not disclosing redacted information.
- edited or compiled, as from multiple sources:
This text is believed to be a redacted and bowdlerized edition of the Babylonian Talmud.
verb
- the simple past tense and past participle of redact.
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- un·re·dac·ted adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of redacted1
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Example Sentences
I guess I put [one of his legends; spoiler redacted] to rest.
The security sections of the applications have been redacted online.
Another applicant “affirmed that his infant son died … as a result of child abuse,” reads one heavily redacted example.
In addition, Koh argued for turning over the un-redacted, classified version of the opinion to Congress.
Note: Names of individual officers allegedly targeted by Dorner have been redacted.
Some of the latter were significantly abbreviated/redacted by the translator.
Their present report they redacted to the effect, "All correct as it stood," without once mentioning Heucking.
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