Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A list of persons or organizations that have incurred disapproval or suspicion or are to be boycotted or otherwise penalized.
- transitive verb To place on or as if on a blacklist.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A list of defaulters: specifically applied to printed lists of insolvents and bankrupts, published officially.
- noun Any list of persons who are for any reason deemed objectionable by the makers or users of the list, as for political or social misconduct, for joining in or assisting a Strike, etc.
- noun Nautical, a list kept on board a man-of-war of delinquents to whom extra duty is assigned as a punishment.
- To place on a black-list.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To put in a black list as deserving of suspicion, censure, or punishment; esp. to put in a list of persons stigmatized as insolvent or untrustworthy, -- as tradesmen and employers do for mutual protection. See Black list, under
black , a.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
list or collection of people or entities to beshunned orbanned . - verb transitive To place on a
blacklist ; to mark a person or entity as one to be shunned or banned.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a list of people who are out of favor
- verb put on a blacklist so as to banish or cause to be boycotted
Etymologies
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Examples
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Unfortunately, the blacklist is not made public and nobody is allowed to review the material on banned sites in order to verify that the ban is legitimate.
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The blacklist is not empty and, as I said, it is supported by people with gambling problems (and their families).
The Volokh Conspiracy » More on Behavioral Economics and Regulatory Policy: 2010
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Ricardo: New Jersey has a law supported by compulsive gamblers that allows people to voluntarily sign themselves up for a blacklist — if someone on the blacklist is caught entering a casino, they immediately forfeit all their winnings and might have to pay an additional fine. ...
The Volokh Conspiracy » More on Behavioral Economics and Regulatory Policy: 2010
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New Jersey has a law supported by compulsive gamblers that allows people to voluntarily sign themselves up for a blacklist — if someone on the blacklist is caught entering a casino, they immediately forfeit all their winnings and might have to pay an additional fine.
The Volokh Conspiracy » More on Behavioral Economics and Regulatory Policy: 2010
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Someone on the IP list spotted that the blacklist is case sensitive.
Boing Boing: January 29, 2006 - February 4, 2006 Archives 2006
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The story of his father and the blacklist is sadly relevant in our current times.
Thanksgiving Travel 2004
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The names on the blacklist is not public information, of course.
Boing Boing: September 29, 2002 - October 5, 2002 Archives 2002
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Many considered the use of the word blacklist, not commonly employed by conservation organizations, to be inflammatory.
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No, seriously, even CES has jumped on the word blacklist bandwagon.
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No, seriously, even CES has jumped on the word blacklist bandwagon.
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