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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024clas•si•fied /ˈklæsəfaɪd/USA pronunciation adj. - divided or listed by classes or categories.
officially secret;
kept from the knowledge of the general public:busy shredding classified documents.n. [countable] - a classified ad:looked in the classifieds for an apartment.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024clas•si•fied (klas′ə fīd′),USA pronunciation adj. - arranged or distributed in classes or according to class:We plan to review all the classified specimens in the laboratory.
- of or designating the part or parts of a publication that contain advertisements or lists arranged by category:Look under "plumbers'' in the classified pages of the telephone book. He found a job for a "typist'' in the classified section of the newspaper.
- Government(of information, a document, etc.)
- bearing the designation classified.
- available only to authorized persons. Cf. classification (def. 5).
- confidential or secret:The firm's promotional budget for next year is classified information.
- identified as belonging to a specific group or category, as one to which benefits or restrictions apply:Classified buildings are eligible for state-funded restoration. The bank has a list of classified customers to whom it will not make large loans.
n. - See classified ad.
- 1885–90; 1940–45 for def. 3; classify + -ed2
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: classified /ˈklæsɪˌfaɪd/ adj - arranged according to some system of classification
- (of information) not available to people outside a restricted group, esp for reasons of national security
- (of information) closely concealed or secret
- (of advertisements in newspapers, etc) arranged according to type
- Brit (of newspapers) containing sports results, esp football results
- (of British roads) having a number in the national road system. If the number is preceded by an M the road is a motorway, if by an A it is a first-class road, and if by a B it is a secondary road
clas•si•fy /ˈklæsəˌfaɪ/USA pronunciation v. [~ + object], -fied, -fy•ing. - to arrange or organize by classes:She classified her students into three groups: low, average, and high.
- to limit the availability of (information, etc.) to certain persons only:The government classified those documents until the year 2010.
clas•si•fi•a•ble, adj. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024clas•si•fy (klas′ə fī′),USA pronunciation v.t., -fied, -fy•ing. - to arrange or organize by classes;
order according to class. - Governmentto assign a classification to (information, a document, etc.). Cf. classification (def. 5).
- to limit the availability of (information, a document, etc.) to authorized persons.
- Latin classi(s) class + -fy
- 1790–1800
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged class, rank, rate, categorize, group.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: classify /ˈklæsɪˌfaɪ/ vb ( -fies, -fying, -fied)(transitive)- to arrange or order by classes; categorize
- to declare (information, documents, etc) of possible aid to an enemy and therefore not available to people outside a restricted group
Etymology: 18th Century: back formation from classificationˈclassiˌfiable adj ˈclassiˌfier n |