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black site

black site noun: a location at which an unacknowledged black operation or black project is conducted.

Noun

black site (plural black sites)

  1. A location at which an unacknowledged black operation or black project is conducted.
    • Noting the dearth of serious research on black sites, Paglen endeavored to produce a book that would reveal “how the United States has become dependent on spaces created through secrecy, spaces that lie outside the rule of law, outside the Constitution, outside the democratic ideal of equal rights...2020, Asbjørn Skarsvåg Grønstad, quoting Trevor Paglen, Rethinking Art and Visual Culture: The Poetics of Opacity, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 136

Forms of black site

pluralblack sites
alternative formblacksite

Questions about black site

What does black site mean?
Black site means a location at which an unacknowledged black operation or black project is conducted.
What part of speech is black site?
Black site is a noun.
What is the plural of black site?
The plural of black site is black sites.

Words near black site in the dictionary

  1. black sheep
  2. black shoe
  3. black shoes
  4. black sigatoka
  5. black silver
  6. black site
  7. black sites
  8. black skimmer
  9. black skimmers
  10. black slug
  11. black slugs

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