Declassify

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    to remove the classification from; to lift the restrictions on

    "Trump: This was done by the military and given to me. Uh, I think we can probably, right? / Staffer: I don't know, well, we'll have to see. Yeah, we'll have to try to- / Trump: Declassify it. / Staffer: -figure out a- yeah. / Trump: See as president I could have declassified it. Now I can't, you know, but this is still a secret. / Staffer: Yeah. [Laughter] Now we have a problem. / Trump: Isn't that interesting? / Staffer: Yeah. / Trump: It's so cool."

  2. 2
    lift the restriction on and make available again wordnet

Example

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"France needs to declassify colonial records related to Algeria."

Etymology

From de- + classify.

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