English-Finnish translations for censor

• sensori
  Emme voi hyväksyä sitä, että keskuspankista tulee kansallisten talouspolitiikkojen sensori, joka antaa inflaation torjunnan nimissä sosiaali- ja työllisyyspolitiikkaa koskevia rajoittavia määräyksiä. We cannot allow the Central Bank to become the censor of national budgets by imposing policies, in the name of the fight against inflation, which are restrictive in social and employment terms.
  Lisäksi lehdistön kasvu teki sensorien työn ylivoimaiseksi. (itsenaisyys100.fi
• arvostelija
• moraalinvartija
• sensuroida
  Tällaista vapautta ei pitäisi sensuroida. Such freedom should not be censored.
  Internetissä on mahdollista sensuroida yksittäisiä sivuja. It is only possible to censor individual pages on the Internet.
  Olimme yksimielisiä siitä, että tiedotusvälineitä ei voi sensuroida, niille ei voi sanoa, mitä ne eivät saa tehdä. The consensus was that you cannot censor the media, you cannot tell them what to do.
• ydinminä

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