civil censorship

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   military censorship of civilian communications (correspondence or printed matter of films) entering or leaving of circulating within territories controlled by armed forces

   Broadermilitary censorship

Questions about civil censorship

What does civil censorship mean?

civil censorship means "military censorship of civilian communications (correspondence or printed matter of films) entering or leaving of circulating within territories controlled by armed forces".

Is civil censorship a common word?

civil censorship is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.