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D-notices

D-notices is the plural of D-notice.

Meaning of D-notice

Noun

D-notice (plural D-notices)

  1. (UK, historical) 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

Questions about D-notices

What is D-notices the plural of?
D-notices is the plural of D-notice.

Words near D-notices in the dictionary

  1. D-MER
  2. D-Mode
  3. d-note
  4. d-notes
  5. D-notice
  6. D-notices
  7. d-pad
  8. d-pads
  9. D-pillar
  10. D-pillars
  11. D-post

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