verb
- to remove the security classification from (a document or information)
Usage: government/military context
Examples
- The government decided to declass several Cold War documents.
- It took years to declass the intelligence reports.
- The agency will declass these files next month.
- They voted to declass the previously secret memo.
- The president ordered officials to declass the investigation materials.
- Congress pressured the department to declass the relevant documents.