unclassify
verbEtymology From un- + classify or possibly Back-formation from unclassified.
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To declassify.
- This is in response to your request for my official opinion concerning whether an appointing authority can unclassify a position for use exclusively by a second appointing authority.1986, Opinions of the Attorneys-General of the State of Georgia, page 82:
- However, if both AFATDS and IFSAS are operating in the unclassified mode, IFSAS still must unclassify each message before sending it to AFATDS.2000, Field Artillery, page 37:
1 more example
- He claims they don't have anything to unclassify.2004, Neil Mavis, Deorbit the Space Shuttle: Stem Cell Rescue, page 152: