English-Czech translations for censor

• cenzor
• censor
  Chtěl bych se zeptat, kdo přidělil panu Schulzovi funkci censora? I would like to ask who gave Mr Schulz the job of censor?
• cenzurovat
  Pokud bude Evropský parlament cenzurovat politické komentáře, přestane být parlamentem. If the European Parliament censors political comment, it ceases to be a Parliament.
  Tyto zoufalé pokusy cenzurovat informace a potlačovat svobodu vyjadřování mi připomínají chování Mahmúda Ahmadínežáda. These desperate attempts to censor information and expression remind me of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's behaviour.
  Vzniká podezření, že jakmile začne určitá mediální síla cenzurovat, má ambice stát se sama politickou mocí. One is left with the suspicion that once a particular media power becomes censorial, it has ambitions to become a political power itself.

Definition of censor

• One of the two magistrates who originally administered the census of citizens, and by w:Classical antiquity|Classical time#Noun|times was a high#Adjective|high judge#Noun|judge of public#Adjective|public behaviour and morality
• An official responsible for the removal or suppression of objectionable material#Noun|material or sensitive content#Noun|content in book#Noun|books, film#Noun|films, correspondence, and other medium#Noun|media
• A college or university official whose duties vary depending on the institution
• To review#Verb|review for, and if necessary to remove#Verb|remove or suppress, content#Noun|content from book#Noun|books, film#Noun|films, correspondence, and other medium#Noun|media which is regard#Verb|regarded as objectionable (for example, obscene, likely to incite violence, or sensitive
• A hypothetical#Adjective|hypothetical subconscious agency which filter#Verb|filters unacceptable thought#Noun|thought before it reach#Verb|reaches the conscious mind#Noun|mind

Examples

• The Ancient Roman censors were part of the cursus honorum, a series of public offices held during a political career, like consuls and praetors
• The headmaster was an even stricter censor of his boarding pupils’ correspondence than the enemy censors had been of his own when the country was occupied
• The people responsible for censoring films have seen some startling things in their time
• Occupying powers typically censor anything reeking of resistance

Related words

• censorical