Q clearance

noun

1. (in the Nuclear Regulatory Commission) the highest level of security clearance, permitting access to secret information, documents, etc., relating to nuclear research.

Example Sentences

“But even if Trump’s Q clearance had remained active,” prosecutors said, “that fact would not give him the right to take any documents containing information subject to the clearance to his home and store it in his basement or anywhere else at Mar-a-Lago.”

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Diane arrived in 1948 and got Q clearance as a laborer in GE’s health estimate department.

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In Betty’s case, the commission’s director of security in 1947 personally advised that FBI reports implicating her as a lesbian should not disqualify her for Q clearance.

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He was stripped of his Q clearance in 1954, as chronicled in the movie.

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The first of them to reach Hanford, in February 1944, was Edith, a clerk with the Army Corps of Engineers, and Claire, who began working at an unclassified job but later gained a Q clearance to become a “computer” in the plant’s transportation division for General Electric Co.

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