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. 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.

  2. Justice Department spokesman Marc Raimondi:

    When we're chasing a terrorist or a spy, almost everything we have is highly, highly classified. Normal courts are not set up to handle that.

  3. Jonathan Schanzer:

    The way forward is not to pursue the FTO approach at the State Department, primarily because the initiative is likely to fail, the State Department will remain opposed…the Muslim Brotherhood is not a homogeneous organization, rather, it is made up of disparate affiliates, some of which could likely be classified as terror groups, and some not.

  4. Former Lt. Col Rick Francona:

    The vessels themselves may be of interest, but they certainly are not classified, in terms of the electronics the sailors could easily disable the electronic and classified information with a few key strokes.

  5. Donald Trump:

    Donald Trump had no proper interest in classified documents ; there is no way Donald Trump ever has the right to get this information or see it. That really is the underlying basis of this whole opinion.

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