Definitions for Top Secret
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1. top secretadjective

   Information classified at the highest level of sensitivity by a government, based on an assessment that it would cause exceptionally grave damage to national security if disclosed.

2. top secretadjective

   A level of security clearance needed to access such information.

3. top secretadjective

   Pertaining to any especially sensitive closed-room activities.

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1. top secret

   Classified information is material that a government body deems to be sensitive information that must be protected. Access is restricted by law or regulation to particular groups of people with the necessary security clearance and need to know, and mishandling of the material can incur criminal penalties. A formal security clearance is required to view or handle classified material. The clearance process requires a satisfactory background investigation. Documents and other information must be properly marked "by the author" with one of several (hierarchical) levels of sensitivity—e.g. restricted, confidential, secret, and top secret. The choice of level is based on an impact assessment; governments have their own criteria, including how to determine the classification of an information asset and rules on how to protect information classified at each level. This process often includes security clearances for personnel handling the information. Some corporations and non-government organizations also assign levels of protection to their private information, either from a desire to protect trade secrets, or because of laws and regulations governing various matters such as personal privacy, sealed legal proceedings and the timing of financial information releases. With the passage of time much classified information can become less sensitive, and may be declassified and made public. Since the late twentieth century there has been freedom of information legislation in some countries, whereby the public is deemed to have the right to all information that is not considered to be damaging if released. Sometimes documents are released with information still considered confidential obscured (redacted), as in the adjacent example. The question exists among some political science and legal experts whether the definition of classified ought to be information that would cause injury to the cause of justice, human rights, etc., rather than information that would cause injury to the national interest; to distinguish when classifying information is in the collective best interest of a just society, or merely the best interest of a society acting unjustly to protect its people, government, or administrative officials from legitimate recourses consistent with a fair and just social contract.

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1. Top Secret

   Top Secret is an espionage-themed role-playing game written by Merle M. Rasmussen and first published in 1980 by TSR, Inc.

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1. top secret

   See security classification.

How to pronounce Top Secret?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say Top Secret in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Top Secret in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Top Secret in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of Top Secret in a Sentence

1. Kris Goldsmith:

   Teixeira is a great example of how the department of defense has failed to figure out how to root out extremists, the fact that he was able to get a top secret security clearance after it became known to the local police that he shouldn’t have a gun, kind of boggles the mind and it makes me wonder what other kind of problems there are with the clearance system.

2. Donald Trump:

   This is top secret stuff. Look, General Petraeus, his life was destroyed with a tiny fraction of what she's done, so it's very unfair to him, if they're going to destroy him over doing, by comparison, nothing, I don't see how she can run.

3. John Greenewald:

   People have this fascination when it comes to UFOs, we can have our speculation that it’s top secret, but we simply don’t know.

4. State Department:

   The State Department will be denying in full seven email chains, found in 22 documents representing 37 pages, the documents are being upgraded at the request of the Intelligence Community because they contain a category of Top Secret information ... These documents were not marked classified at the time they were sent.

5. Philip Mudd:

   The difference between Top Secret and Top Secret is quite significant.

References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Top_Secret
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Secret
3. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Top Secret
4. ^ Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms
   https://www.tradoc.army.mil/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/AD1029823-DOD-Dictionary-of-Military-and-Associated-Terms-2017.pdf