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  • adjective divided up into compartments.

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  • adjective Divided into compartments
  • adjective Having (a specified type of) compartments

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  • adjective divided up or separated into compartments or isolated units

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Examples

  • Clearance processing for the most sensitive secrets, such as compartmented intelligence data, has generally involved a thorough background investigation along with a polygraph examination and other screening tools.

    Abraham R. Wagner: Another Secrets Explosion Abraham R. Wagner 2010

  • Clearance processing for the most sensitive secrets, such as compartmented intelligence data, has generally involved a thorough background investigation along with a polygraph examination and other screening tools.

    Abraham R. Wagner: Another Secrets Explosion Abraham R. Wagner 2010

  • Clearance processing for the most sensitive secrets, such as compartmented intelligence data, has generally involved a thorough background investigation along with a polygraph examination and other screening tools.

    Abraham R. Wagner: Another Secrets Explosion Abraham R. Wagner 2010

  • Clearance processing for the most sensitive secrets, such as compartmented intelligence data, has generally involved a thorough background investigation along with a polygraph examination and other screening tools.

    Abraham R. Wagner: Another Secrets Explosion Abraham R. Wagner 2010

  • Clearance processing for the most sensitive secrets, such as compartmented intelligence data, has generally involved a thorough background investigation along with a polygraph examination and other screening tools.

    Abraham R. Wagner: Another Secrets Explosion Abraham R. Wagner 2010

  • Clearance processing for the most sensitive secrets, such as compartmented intelligence data, has generally involved a thorough background investigation along with a polygraph examination and other screening tools.

    Abraham R. Wagner: Another Secrets Explosion Abraham R. Wagner 2010

  • Clearance processing for the most sensitive secrets, such as compartmented intelligence data, has generally involved a thorough background investigation along with a polygraph examination and other screening tools.

    Abraham R. Wagner: Secrets Exposion Abraham R. Wagner 2010

  • Clearance processing for the most sensitive secrets, such as compartmented intelligence data, has generally involved a thorough background investigation along with a polygraph examination and other screening tools.

    Abraham R. Wagner: Another Secrets Explosion Abraham R. Wagner 2010

  • Clearance processing for the most sensitive secrets, such as compartmented intelligence data, has generally involved a thorough background investigation along with a polygraph examination and other screening tools.

    Abraham R. Wagner: Another Secrets Explosion Abraham R. Wagner 2010

  • Seasoned intelligence and defense workers routinely re-submit to the security investigation process every few years, or if their work requires them to gain access to a specialized or "compartmented" program.

    Frank Naif: Todd Palin's Past Political Associations A Likely Security Clearance Disqualifier 2008

  • If officials want to discuss military activity, they should go into a specially designed space known as a sensitive compartmented information facility, or SCIF—most Cabinet-level national-security officials have one installed in their home—or communicate only on approved government equipment, the lawyers said.

    The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans Jeffrey Goldberg 2025

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