declassified
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Having had security classification removed: Describes information, documents, or materials that were once officially secret or restricted but have since been officially declared no longer classified and are now available to the public.
Usage
- The word "declassified" is used to describe the status of government or military information after a formal review process. It is typically used attributively (before a noun) or predicatively (after a linking verb like 'is' or 'was').
Examples
- Adjective:
- The journalist accessed declassified documents about the Cold War.
- The report was declassified after 50 years.
- Researchers are studying newly declassified files.
Advanced Usage
- "to be declassified": to undergo the official process of having one's secret status removed.
- The files are scheduled to be declassified next year.
- "declassified information": a common collocation referring to the content that is no longer secret.
- The book is based on thousands of pages of declassified information.
Variants and Related Words
- Declassify (verb): To officially remove the security classification from (information or documents).
- The government agreed to declassify the records.
- Declassification (noun): The act or process of declassifying.
- The declassification of the papers revealed new historical details.
Synonyms
- Released (in the context of information).
- Disclosed (often implies a deliberate act of making information known).
- Unclassified (can describe information that was never classified or has been declassified).
Antonyms
- Classified.
- Secret.
- Confidential.
- Restricted.
Related Phrases
- Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request: A formal method through which individuals can request the declassification and release of U.S. government documents.
- The documents were obtained through a FOIA request.
Adjective
- having had security classification removed