D-notice
noun[Cusually singular]
uk/ˈdiːˌnəʊ.tɪs/us/ˈdiːˌnoʊ.t̬ɪs/a Britishgovernmentinstructionpreventingparticularinformationfrom being madepublicinordertoprotectthecountry:
国防机密通知(指英国政府为了国家要求某些消息不予以公开的命令)The D-notice wasliftedafternewsof thecomputertheftwascirculatedby aninternationalnewsagency.国防机密通知在一家国际通讯社对此次计算机失窃事件进行报道后被撤销了。
UK politics: government administration & organization
- awkward
- backbench
- Brexit
- collectivization
- hung parliament
- lord
- loyalist
- partition
- PMQs
- policy-maker
- policy-making
- polity
- reshuffle
- soviet
- the awkward gangidiom
- the House of Lords
- the Houses of Parliament
- three-line whip
- upper house
- Westminster