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unclassified

unclassified

11 4.2
Not secret and available to the public
  • adjective
  • /ʌnˈklæsɪfaɪd/
  • Formal
translation icon : no clasificado
  • Yet those who read about the attack in "open source," unclassified publications had reason to reach a very different conclusion.
  • unclassified information
  • Unclassified Report
  • Unclassified form to Congress

And what that results in is in intermingling of classified and unclassified documents.

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Examples

  • The Army has allowed us access to its unclassified history databanks.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • The government released an unclassified summary of the findings from the investigation.

  • And the result would, I think, have more impact on the target audience for the unclassified paper.

    Academic text (2014)
  • King said when the unclassified talking points were sent to the administration.

    Blog text (2)
  • I am glad you have so much faith in the 2007 unclassified NIE.

    Blog text (31)
  • We would have said, 'What talking points can I use?' and you'd get an unclassified version.

    Blog text (13)
  • People don't understand the difference between classified and unclassified intelligence briefings.

    Blog text (8)
  • Darrel Issa has released the unclassified portions of those requests.

    Blog text (24)
  • All the documents in this archive are unclassified and available to the public.

  • Students can access the unclassified materials online without needing special permissions.

Antonyms

classified
  • Formal
1 7.4

Kept secret and shown only to people with permission

How Classified

top secret
  • Formal
55 4.2
secret
2.0
confidential
205 5.3
restricted
18 3.9
unclassified
  • Formal
11 4.2

Surface Forms

unclassified positive

Morphology

unclassified = classified (transparent) = un + classify + ed

Formed by productive negation 'un-' applied to 'classified' (derived from 'classify' + '-ed'), so the meaning 'not designated secret' is directly inferable.

Etymology

Unclassified comes from the parts un- meaning 'not' and class meaning 'a group' or 'level', the same idea you see in classify or 'classification'. So an unclassified document is simply 'not' given a security class or label, which is why it is not secret.