English-Swedish translations for censor

• censor en
  I jämlikhetens namn uppträder här censorerna och diktatorerna.In the name of equality, the censors and the dictators are here present.
  Jag förutsätter att kvestorerna kommer att genomföra denna kontroll minutiöst, utan att förvandla sig till censorer.I imagine that the Quaestors will carry out this verification meticulously without transforming themselves into censors.
• censurera
  Denna frihet ska inte censureras.Such freedom should not be censored.
  Det är bara möjligt att censurera enskilda sidor på Internet.It is only possible to censor individual pages on the Internet.
  Jag blev ganska förvånad över att censureras så där.I was quite surprised that I was going to be censored like this.

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