English-Dutch translations for censor

• censor
  De censoren en dictators zijn onder ons - in de naam van gelijkheid. In the name of equality, the censors and the dictators are here present.
• censureren
  Als het Europees Parlement politieke opmerkingen gaat censureren, dan is het geen parlement meer. If the European Parliament censors political comment, it ceases to be a Parliament.
  In werkelijkheid is dit toezichthoudende orgaan een perfect instrument om de media te censureren. In reality, this supervisory body is the perfect instrument for censoring the media.
  Het is onmogelijk om het hele internet te censureren, maar toch bestaat die verleiding, net als het daarmee verbonden gevaar. It is impossible to censor the whole network but the temptation or threat to do so still exists.

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