redacted

[ri-dak-tid]

adjective

1. (of a document) with confidential or sensitive information removed or hidden.

   If a court decision contains protected information, it may not be released immediately due to the need to prepare a redacted version.

2. (of text, images, or information) removed, obscured, or hidden from view.

   Under this ruling, state agencies must provide an explanation for not disclosing redacted information.

3. edited or compiled, as from multiple sources.

   This text is believed to be a redacted and bowdlerized edition of the Babylonian Talmud.

verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of redact.

Other Word Forms

• unredacted adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of redacted¹

redact ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

Large parts of the note, however, are redacted.

From Salon

Entries from 40 people in the book, divided into several categories such as "friends", "business", "science" and "Brooklyn", were published, though the names under "family" and "girl friends" were redacted.

From BBC

The woman’s name and photo are redacted in the caption and the image.

From Los Angeles Times

He wrote that Epstein spent the next summer in London and came home with "a beautiful British babe," whose name is redacted, but could refer to Maxwell.

From BBC

He called on Rayner's replacement, the new Housing Secretary Steve Reed, to be provided with unredacted plans, as planning permission "cannot lawfully be granted on the basis of the redacted plans".

From BBC

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