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Meaning of "deniability" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF DENIABILITY

dɪˌnaɪəˈbɪlɪtɪ


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DENIABILITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Deniability is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DENIABILITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Plausible deniability

Plausible deniability is a term coined by the CIA in the early 1960s to describe the withholding of information from senior officials in order to protect them from repercussions in the event that illegal or unpopular activities by the CIA became public knowledge. Its roots go back to Truman's national security council paper 10/2 June 18/1948, which defined "covert operations" as "...all activities conducted pursuant to this directive which are so planned and executed that any U.S. Government responsibility for them is not evident to unauthorized persons and that if uncovered the U.S. Government can plausibly disclaim any responsibility for them." The term most often refers to the capacity of senior officials in a formal or informal chain of command to deny knowledge of and/or responsibility for any damnable actions committed by the lower ranks because of a lack of evidence that can confirm their participation, even if they were personally involved or at least willfully ignorant of said actions.

Definition of deniability in the English dictionary

The definition of deniability in the dictionary is the condition of being deniable.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DENIABILITY

ability · accessibility · accountability · availability · capability · compatibility · disability · durability · eligibility · flexibility · inability · liability · mobility · nobility · possibility · probability · reliability · responsibility · stability · visibility

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DENIABILITY

deni · deniable · deniably · denial · denialist · denied · denier · denies · denigrate · denigration · denigrative · denigrator · denigratory · denim · denim jacket · denimed · denims · Denis · denisation · denitrate

WORDS THAT END LIKE DENIABILITY

agility · credibility · facility · feasibility · fertility · functionality · hostility · humility · inevitability · instability · merchantability · profitability · suitability · susceptibility · sustainability · tranquility · usability · utility · variability · versatility · vulnerability

Synonyms and antonyms of deniability in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «deniability» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DENIABILITY

Find out the translation of deniability to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of deniability from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «deniability» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

推诿
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

negación
570 millions of speakers
en

English

deniability
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

deniability
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الإنكار
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

отрицания
278 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Portuguese

negação
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

deniability
260 millions of speakers
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Translator English - French

déni
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Kesilapan
190 millions of speakers
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deniability
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

否認権
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

효과적인 방어
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Javanese

Deniability
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

phủ nhận
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

மறுப்பதற்கு
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

खोटेपणा
75 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Turkish

deniability
70 millions of speakers
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deniability
65 millions of speakers
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deniability
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

заперечення
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

negare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

deniability
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

deniability
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

förnekande
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

benektelse
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of deniability

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DENIABILITY»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about deniability

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DENIABILITY»

Discover the use of deniability in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to deniability and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Implausible Deniability: State Responsibility for Rural ...
Violence in Northern Chiapas
Joel A. Solomon, Sebastian Brett, Cynthia G. Brown, 1997
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Death Squads in Global Perspective: Murder with Deniability
Death Squads in Global Perspective hopes to answer that question and explain not only their development, but also why they can be expected to proliferate in the early 21st century.
Bruce B. Campbell, Arthur D. Brenner, 2002
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Deniability
PRAISE FOR DENIABILITY That arch-citizen, Suspicious, who lived among Them in the Cold War, now lives among Us. Is Us now. We all feel the costs and compromises of living ordinary lives in a nation whose actions contradict its ideals, but ...
George Witte, 2009
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Plausible Deniability
Plausible Deniability is a spellbinding account of a clandestine plot by Israeli government officials to circumvent a perceived threat to Israel's survival by implementation of the policies of America's first Black President.
Rodger Gillespie, 2012
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Enhanced Security Models for Network Protocols
Historically, there have been many different definitions of deniability for cryptographic protocols (e.g., [44, 42, 73, 37, 39]). In fact, to this day, the issue of defining what we mean by the term “deniability” is almost entirely unsettled in the  ...
Shabsi Walfish, 2008
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Archives and the Public Good: Accountability and Records in ...
Implausible. Deniability: The. Politics. of. Documents. in. the. Iran-. Contra. Affair. and. Its. Investigations. David A. Wallace The series of events that would come to be known as the Iran-Contra Affair trace their roots to nearly contemporaneous ...
Richard J. Cox, David A. Wallace, 2002
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Ensure Plausible Deniability
Ensure Plausible Deniability is a tale of the mid-sixties Soviet Navy flexing its muscles throughout the world's oceans by provoking head-to-head confrontations with U.S. units.
D. M. Ulmer, 2012
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Advances in Cryptology -- ASIACRYPT 2011: 17th International ...
The honest scheme (G,E,D) does not provide deniability in itself. – The fakeable scheme (GF ,EF ,D) provides deniability in the sense that, for a ciphertext c fake secret information can be generated. The faked secret information will make c ...
Dong Hoon Lee, Xiaoyun Wang, 2011
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Theory of Cryptography: 4th Theory of Cryptography ...
As a first indication of this fact, consider the “deniability” concern, namely, allowing party A to interact with party B in a way that prevents B from later “ convincing” a third party C that the interaction took place. Indeed, if A and B interact via an ...
Salil P. Vadhan, 2007
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Intelligence for Peace: The Role of Intelligence in Times of ...
What is the point of the principle of deniability if the political echelons must retract their denial the moment the operative-emissary is caught during or following the act itself? Deniability is required only when something goes wrong and the act ...
Ḥazi Karmel, 1999

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DENIABILITY»

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DISTURBED's DAVID DRAIMAN On Recording 'Immortalized' In …
So it kind of gave us what we like to refer to as 'plausible deniability.'" In addition to 15 new songs — including 12 on the album and three more ... «BLABBERMOUTH.NET, Jul 15»
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Malcolm Turnbull seethes with style, nicking Abbott's artery. By …
This is the sort of construction known in legal circles as plausible deniability. You could, however, imagine the artery in Mr Abbott's neck fairly ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
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The era of the "player agent" is over but they still have a place in …
The agent acting on behalf of United also allows them to keep some level of distance and plausible deniability. It also allows United to employ ... «ESPN FC, Jul 15»
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Happy Ending Stout? Raging Bitch IPA? Craft Beer Has a Sexism …
Both have ready-made plausible deniability baked into their origin stories. Raging Bitch is art, because Hunter S. Thompson sidekick Ralph ... «Slate Magazine, Jul 15»
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Russia upgrades military despite economy
... new capacity for what experts call "hybrid" warfare, a combination of military force with a degree of deniability, sleek propaganda and political ... «NEWS.com.au, Jul 15»
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Missiles And The Nuclear Negotiations With Iran
Although terrorist attacks afford a degree of standoff and deniability, missiles permit a quicker, more flexible response in a rapidly moving crisis ... «Breaking Energy, Jul 15»
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Even your beer is sexist
Of Flying Dog's brews, Gordon writes: “Both have ready-made plausible deniability baked into their origin stories. Raging Bitch is art, because ... «Personal Liberty Digest, Jul 15»
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Baiada avoids sanction for illegal practices
Crucially, labour hire contracting affords companies like Baiada the protection of deniability. Explaining the difficulty in taking enforcement ... «Red Flag, Jul 15»
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How to Master the Art of the Corporate Apology
As one Reddit commenter pointed out, the apology felt like it was "written by HR and vetted for plausible deniability by Legal." 2. Too Little, Too ... «Inc.com, Jul 15»
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TV review: Veep Season 4, Sky Atlantic
The plot is brilliantly constructed, labyrinthine in its double-speak and levels of deniability, but always easy to follow, incredibly funny and utterly ... «The List, Jul 15»
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