Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Containing information whose unauthorized disclosure would pose the gravest threat to national security.
- adjective Of or relating to top-secret information.
- adjective Accessible or known to authorized personnel only.
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- adjective Having the highest
secrecy classification.
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Examples
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The same former friend, Hatfill asserts, also was responsible for undermining his efforts to secure a higher security clearance that would have enabled him to work on top-secret CIA projects when he was employed at SAIC.
The Wrong Man 2010
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Claims "assimilated rank" after providing top-secret work for the Navy in the 1970s.
Heroes or Villains? 2010
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Most of his time at the agency involved top-secret covert actions, including bloody 1954 coups in Guatemala and a 1960s plot to assassinate Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
Nestor D. Sanchez, 83; CIA official led Latin American division T. Rees Shapiro 2011
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In an interview with the BBC in early 2002, she theorized that the murders were the result of a top-secret CIA project gone awry, and that the FBI was hesitant to arrest the killer because it would embarrass Washington.
The Wrong Man 2010
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If i were you i'd keep that stand location top-secret.
Field & Stream 2009
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She declined to be named in part because she does not want to jeopardize her husband's top-secret clearance at his government contracting job.
'Anonymous' movement views Web hijinx as public good, but legality is opaque Ian Shapira 2011
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She declined to be named in part because she does not want to jeopardize her husband's top-secret clearance at his government contracting job.
'Anonymous' movement views Web hijinx as public good, but legality is opaque Ian Shapira 2011
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She declined to be named in part because she does not want to jeopardize her husband's top-secret clearance at his government contracting job.
'Anonymous' movement views Web hijinx as public good, but legality is opaque Ian Shapira 2011
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She declined to be named in part because she does not want to jeopardize her husband's top-secret clearance at his government contracting job.
'Anonymous' movement views Web hijinx as public good, but legality is opaque Ian Shapira 2011
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If i were you i'd keep that stand location top-secret.
Field & Stream 2009
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