D-notice
D-notice noun: a defence notice; an official request to news editors not to publish or broadcast items on specified subjects for reasons of national security (replaced in 1993 with the DA-notice).
Noun
D-notice (plural D-notices)
- A defence notice; an official request to news editors not to publish or broadcast items on specified subjects for reasons of national security (replaced in 1993 with the DA-notice).
- Newspapers are afraid upon all sorts of minor counts, publishers, with such valiant exceptions as the publishers of this matter, are morbidly discreet; they get Notice D to avoid this or that particular topic; there are obscure boycotts and trade difficulties hindering the wide diffusion of general...1940, H. G. Wells, The New World Order, Alfred A. Knopf, published 1940, page 15
- His mistake was to select a heavy English Sunday paper which occasionally ran his pieces. The D-Notice forbidding all reference to these events was there ahead of him.1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 18
Forms of D-notice
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Questions about D-notice
- What does D-notice mean?
- D-notice means a defence notice; an official request to news editors not to publish or broadcast items on specified subjects for reasons of national security (replaced in 1993 with the DA-notice).
- What part of speech is D-notice?
- D-notice is a noun.
- What is the plural of D-notice?
- The plural of D-notice is D-notices.
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