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top-secret

[ top-see-krit ]

/ ˈtɒpˈsi krɪt /

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adjective (of information, a document, etc.)

bearing the classification top-secret, the highest level of classified information.

limited to persons authorized to use anything so classified.Compare classification(def 5).

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RELATED WORDS

classified, hush-hush

Nearby words

Origin of top-secret

First recorded in 1940–45; top¹ + secret

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Examples from the Web for top-secret

A fire that he insists is only picking up pace, according to top-secret intelligence briefings.
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Those looking to solve the mystery of the top-secret event stood in line beginning at 7am, but weren't let inside until 2pm.
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About half a million other private contractors have top-secret clearance.
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The top-secret ‘Q Group’ has been chasing Edward Snowden since he disappeared in May.
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Now it was the Swifts' top-secret rocket base, tightly guarded by drone planes and radar.
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Temple was a thermo-nuclear engineer with top-secret government clearance.
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The higher you went in these top-secret projects, the more silence and stubbornness you found.
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Or had he, the Vice-President, been in a fog when vital, top-secret information had been made public?
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Senator Crane, a doggedly determined man, had listened to the replay of Brent Taber's top-secret conference again and again.
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British Dictionary definitions for top-secret

top-secret

adjective

containing information whose disclosure would cause exceedingly grave damage to the nation and therefore classified as needing the highest level of secrecy and security

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