Precensor

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To censor in advance. transitive

    "On April 29, 1953, a move was announced that would precensor all stories and scripts before they even reached the sets so that an "unlikely" story would not be passed by the precensor board."

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"On April 29, 1953, a move was announced that would precensor all stories and scripts before they even reached the sets so that an "unlikely" story would not be passed by the precensor board."

Etymology

From pre- + censor.

Related phrases

in advance

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