What does Classified mean?

Definitions for Classified
ˈklæs əˌfaɪdclas·si·fied

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. classified ad, classified advertisement, classifiedadjective

    a short ad in a newspaper or magazine (usually in small print) and appearing along with other ads of the same type

  2. classifiedadjective

    arranged into classes

  3. classifiedadjective

    official classification of information or documents; withheld from general circulation

    "thousands of classified documents have now been declassified"

GCIDE

  1. classifiedadjective

    arranged into classes or categories; as, unclassified.

Wiktionary

  1. classifiednoun

    A classified advertisement in a newspaper or magazine.

    He ran a classified for the tools he wanted to sell.

  2. classifiedadjective

    National security information formally assigned by governments to one of several levels of sensitivity, usually (in English) top secret, secret, confidential, and, in some countries, restricted; thereby making disclosure to unauthorized persons illegal.

    We do not discuss specific interrogation techniques because they are classified information.

  3. classifiedadjective

    Any information a person or organization does not wish to disclose.

    I won't say who I'm going to the prom with; that's classified.

ChatGPT

  1. classified

    Classified generally refers to something that has been categorized or organized into a certain group or system based on shared characteristics, attributes or qualities. It can also refer to information or data that has been marked as private, confidential, or secret, limiting the access or distribution to specific individuals, particularly in a governmental, military or organizational context.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Classified

    of Classify

Wikidata

  1. Classified

    Luke Boyd, professionally known as Classified, is a Canadian rapper and producer from Enfield, Nova Scotia.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Classified in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Classified in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of Classified in a Sentence

  1. Efraim Zuroff:

    The system that the Nazis put in place in order to annihilate the Jewish people and the others they classified as enemies was made up of all sorts of people who fulfilled all sorts of tasks, obviously Oskar Groening is not as guilty as (SS head) Heinrich Himmler... but he contributed his talents to helping the system carry out mass murder.

  2. Peter Daszak:

    I think WHO should have spoken out more forcefully and said we are not going to do a forensic investigation of a lab in China as part of this work, if you look at the way that they reported on that( lab leak theory), they classified it as' extremely unlikely.' For us to be able to take that off the table, it needs to be studied properly. It needs to be studied thoroughly.

  3. Steven Aftergood:

    A document that is classified in Washington, DC, is unclassified in Florida -- one could say such a thing, but it is nonsensical, and it calls into question the good faith of anyone who would make such a claim.

  4. Dan Coats:

    I am confident that the Attorney General will work with the IC in accordance with the long-established standards to protect highly-sensitive classified information that, if publicly released, would put our national security at risk.

  5. Rear Admiral John Kirby:

    Details about the mission remain classified.

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