security clearance

noun

: special permission given only to people who are approved to know or see secret things

The documents are only available to people with security clearance from the government.

Examples of security clearance in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

One was a retired Air Force general, two others were not scientists but had worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and another had a security clearance but worked elsewhere. —Faye Flam, Scientific American, 7 May 2026

In another case, the SPLC said intel from the informant program was passed to law enforcement and led to the conviction of a man who lied about his ties to a white supremacist group while requesting national security clearance. —ABC News, 28 Apr. 2026

Government contractor with security clearance. —Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 23 Apr. 2026

Instead the event, which starts today and runs through Friday, is taking place on the CDC’s main campus, which only people with security clearance can access. —Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 21 Apr. 2026

Rhymes for security clearance

• adherence
• appearance
• coherence
• preclearance
• disappearance
• incoherence
• interference
• perseverance
• reappearance
• noninterference