adjective
- having had identifying information removed so that the identity of a person or organization is not known
Usage: commonly used in data protection, research, and privacy contexts
verb
- past tense and past participle of anonymize; to remove or conceal the identity of someone or something
Usage: transitive verb
Examples
- The survey used anonymized responses to protect participant privacy.
- Patient data was anonymized before being shared with researchers.
- The company anonymized customer information in their database.
- Anonymized feedback from employees helped improve workplace policies.
- The study analyzed anonymized health records from thousands of patients.
- They anonymized the test results so no one could identify individual students.