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blacksite

blacksite is the alternative form of black site.

Meaning of black site

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 blacksite

pluralblacksites

Questions about blacksite

What is blacksite the alternative form of?
Blacksite is the alternative form of black site.

Words near blacksite in the dictionary

  1. blackshirt
  2. blackshirted
  3. blackshirts
  4. blackshop
  5. blackshops
  6. blacksite
  7. blackskin
  8. blackskinned
  9. blackskins
  10. blacksmelt
  11. blacksmelts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: blacksite (page history and authors); black site (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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