censorship

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: cen=sor=ship

CIDE DICTIONARY

censorship, n. 

 The office or power of a censor; as, to stand for a censorship.  Holland.  [1913 Webster]
"The press was not indeed at that moment under a general censorship."  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

censorship

abbreviation, abridgment, bamboo curtain, barrier of secrecy, blackout, block, blockage, blocking, blue-penciling, bowdlerization, cancellation, censoring, crackdown, crushing, curtain, deletion, editing, erasure, expurgation, extinguishment, hush-up, inhibition, iron curtain, ironbound security, oath of secrecy, official secrecy, omission, pall, psychological block, putting down, quashing, quelling, quenching, repression, resistance, restraint, seal of secrecy, security, smashing, smothering, squashing, squelching, stifling, strangling, striking, subdual, suffocating, suppression, throttling, veil, veil of secrecy, wraps