Making something sanitary (free of germs) as by sterilizing

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Sanitization is the process of removing sensitive information from a document or other message (or sometimes encrypting it), so that the document may be distributed to a broader audience. When the intent is secrecy protection , such as in dealing with classified ...

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n. making something sanitary (free of germs) as by sterilizing [syn: sanitation , sanitisation ]

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alt. 1 the act of sanitizing something, or something that has been sanitized 2 the process of editing a security-classified document in order to reduce its classification level n. 1 the act of sanitizing something, or something that has been sanitized 2 ...