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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
top-secret
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
top-secret government reports
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Both had given away vast amounts of top-secret material without their employers being aware.
▪ But at least he was out of his top-secret room and getting a bit of fresh air for a change.
▪ Evidence of MI6's involvement appeared in a top-secret report placed on the internet last month.
▪ Huang was given a top-secret clearance at Commerce after what Republicans have called a lax background investigation.
▪ If he does, it could be used by corporations, governments or any group that wanted to keep top-secret information secure.
▪ The firm is described as a leading developer of top-secret weaponry.
▪ The men were carrying out top-secret research into radar, and until now the incident has been shrouded in mystery.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
top-secret

classified \classified\ adj.

  1. arranged into classes or categories; as, unclassified.

    Syn: categorized.

  2. assigned to a class of documents withheld from general circulation; -- of information or documents. Opposite of unclassified.

    Note: [Narrower terms: eyes-only; confidential; restricted; secret; sensitive; top-secret]

Wiktionary
top-secret

a. Having the highest secrecy classification. alt. Having the highest secrecy classification.

WordNet
top-secret

adj. the highest official level of classification of documents

Usage examples of "top-secret".

The key findings of the Taylor Report, like many other top-secret studies, were selectively IeaLed decades before the declassification process was completed.

Wintin Hardahee had a purry little voice, useful for imparting top-secret information.

Hitler issued on November 12, 1940, a comprehensive top-secret directive outlining new military tasks all over Europe and beyond.

My clearance was not granted, but I was never hassled about it -- and instead of being sent to a top-secret radar installation near the Arctic Circle, I was passed over for promotion and placed in a job as sports editor of a base newspaper on the Gulf Coast of Florida.

I helped to arrange the first top-secret briefing in the Pentagon to show the Department of Defense that lasers were now much more than laboratory curiosities.

I did hear some talk they might have been after those two top-secret plasmoids in your Project.

Carried on in a small number of top-secret redoubts, the experimentation was one of the many peripheral projects linked to the Totality Concept.

Williams curtly, as she walked across the floor and keyed a top-secret security code into the touchpad of an inset videophone.

Cassidy, the sheltered daughter of famous scientists who had elevated themselves from stark poverty as children to esteemed positions at Los Alamos National Laboratory doing top-secret quantum research for the Department of Defense, had had a nearly impossible time getting a date outside of the cliquish scientific community in which she'd been raised.

She'd missed the noon deadline by over an hour, but there were certain things about one's toilet that simply couldn't be rushed, and - as she'd told a briefly but fetchingly incandescently furious Churt Lyne from her milk-bath - if she was really that important to all these top-secret plans, SC had no choice but to wait.

Liadof's top-secret probe was centered in one of the sensor displays, a three-dimensional version of the sketch he'd been studying and analyzing over the past few days.

All they really knew was that a highly intelligent Air Force Academy grad, American citizen, B-52 crew member, and member of a top-secret weapons research -group with an advanced degree and a top-secret security clearance, had been advancing the state of the art in Russian long-range bombing technology by an entire generation.

It was estimated that a successful brute-force attack on a standard sixty-four-bit key would take the NSA's fastest computer--the top-secret Cray/Josephson II--over nineteen years to break.

Desdemona is breaking down the walls around his heart and someone is trying to get into his files to steal a top-secret computer program.

A top-secret filing clerk careless about filing top-secret documents.