classify, declassify, unmasking

The F.B.I. Pledged to Keep a Source Anonymous. Trump Allies Aided His Unmasking.

By Adam Goldman and Charlie Savage

After a Russia expert who had collected research on Donald Trump for a disputed dossier agreed to tell the F.B.I. what he knew about it, law enforcement officials declassified a road map to identifying him.

classify

verb [ T ]

UK 

 /ˈklæs.ɪ.faɪ/ US 

 /ˈklæs.ə.faɪ/

 

C1

to divide things or people into groups according to their type, or to say which group or type something or someone belongs to:

The books in the library are classified by/according to subject.

Biologists classify animals and plants into different groups.

children who are classified as overweight

比較

class verb

 

to officially state that information is secret:

The Ministry of Defence moved quickly to classify the documents.

He has the authority to classify information as Top Secret.

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• This is a hard book to classify.
• Fingerprints were first classified in 1823 by a Czech anatomist, Jan Evangelista Purkinje.
• Under the old rules, her employer could not classify her as a manager.
• Even though it's classified as a compact camera, it weighs a pound and a half.
• He recognises that the government classifies too much information.