classified (See classify)

1 arrange or order by classes or categories; "How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?" [syn: class, sort, assort, sort out, separate]

2 declare unavailable, as for security reasons; "Classify these documents" [ant: declassify]

3 assign to a class or kind; "How should algae be classified?"; "People argue about how to relegate certain mushrooms" [syn: relegate] [also: classified]classified adj

1 arranged into classes [ant: unclassified]

2 official classification of information or documents; withheld from general circulation; "thousands of classified documents have now been declassified" [ant: unclassified]

English

Verb

classified

1. past of classify

   Make sure all the field observations are classified by species.

Adjective

1. National security information formally assigned by governments to one of several levels of sensitivity, usually (in English) top secret, secret, confidential, and, in some countries, restricted; thereby making disclosure to unauthorized persons illegal.

   We do not discuss specific interrogation techniques because they are classified information.

2. Any information a person or organization does not wish to disclose.

   I won't say who I'm going to the prom with; that's classified.

Noun

1. A classified advertisement in a newspaper or magazine.

   He ran a classified for the tools he wanted to sell.

Classified may refer to:

• Classified information, sensitive information to which access is restricted by law or regulation to particular classes of people.
• Classified advertising
• Classified (band), an alternative rock band from Galway city, Ireland.
• Classified (rapper), rapper from Halifax, Nova Scotia.
• Classified (album), a Sweetbox album released in 2001
• Classified (Bond album) — a Bond album released in 2005.
• Classified'' (song), a song by Pete Townshend

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