unclassified
- adjective
- /ʌnˈklæsɪfaɪd/
- Formal
- 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.
- And what that results in is in intermingling of classified and unclassified documents.
- Every single thing that he says was classified, we found, we found in sources, unclassified public sources before that.
Examples
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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.
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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.
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Students can access the unclassified materials online without needing special permissions.
Antonyms
How Classified
- Formal
- Formal
Surface Forms
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.