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

Freebase

  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. Bradley Podliska:

    I was accused of a security violation along with several other people, when I asked him,' Hey, what here is classified, what classification manual did you use ?' he said,' I didn't use a classification manual.' I said,' Well, honestly ? Like you could have gotten that information from Wikipedia that I put in there. How is this classified ?' And he -- he backed down. He said,' Look, it's not classified, it's just sensitive information.' And I left it at that. And the next thing I know I was being charged with it for a security violation.

  2. Bradley Podliska:

    When I asked him,' Hey, what here is classified, what classification manual did you use ?' he said,' I didn't use a classification manual.' I said,' Well, honestly ? Like you could have gotten that information from Wikipedia that I put in there. How is this classified ?' And he -- he backed down. He said,' Look, it's not classified, it's just sensitive information.' And I left it at that. And the next thing I know I was being charged with it for a security violation.

  3. Darrell Issa:

    The attempt to paint her predecessors in the State Department as equal offenders in mishandling classified material is an insult to what we now know to be the truth, official investigations have confirmed that Secretary Clinton’s unsecure server stored more than 1,000 emails containing classified information, including some classified at the very highest levels. Her guarantee to the nation that the number was zero now seems more like desperation than news cycle spin.

  4. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

    The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.

  5. Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro:

    I believe that Secretary Clinton has said, has acknowledged that that was not the best way to handle her emails back then ... and has turned over all of the information and the emails and documents and now the server, folks need to understand that she did not handle classified information that was classified at that the time. It may have become classified later, but it was not classified that way at the time.

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