D-notice

English

Noun

D-notice (plural D-notices)

1. (UK, historical) A defence notice; an official request to news editors not to publish or broadcast items on specified subjects for reasons of national security (replaced in 1993 with the DA-notice).
   • 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 18:

     His mistake was to select a heavy English Sunday paper which occasionally ran his pieces. The D-Notice forbidding all reference to these events was there ahead of him.

Anagrams

• condite, ctenoid, deontic, ectodin, noticed