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  • adjective colloquial, jargon Explicitly and specifically approved by appearing on a whitelist, and therefore having greater access or preference.
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of whitelist.

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Examples

  • Comodo works mostly with so called Whitelists, which means it allows only "whitelisted" programs to work on your computer and send data via the Internet.

    Comodo Firewall – it’s free and it’s good to protect your Windows PC | ultraorange.net 2008

  • As mentioned at Mashable twitter have imposed a rate limit for their "whitelisted" users API calls.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Web 2.0 2009

  • Legitimate users (staff) can have their phones 'whitelisted' to bypass the filtering and surveillance applications running on the base station.

    Medlogs - Recent stories 2009

  • Later this week, according to Twitter developer Alex Payne, the Twitter platform will limit API calls from a single IP address at approved ( "whitelisted") Twitter services to 20,000 per hour.

    CNET News.com 2009

  • The free version of OpenDNS caps the number of Web sites that can be "whitelisted" at 25, and it doesn't let users globally blacklist all unknown sites.

    PC World 2009

  • In the 1950s, when the legendary singer and African-American leader Paul Robeson was "whitelisted" during Sen. Joseph McCarthy's witch hunts, banned from almost every public space in the United States but for a few black churches, he knew he could go to KPFA and be heard.

    Democracy Now! 2009

  • Legitimate users (staff) can have their phones 'whitelisted' to bypass the filtering and surveillance applications running on the base station.

    freshnews.org - most clicked links 2009

  • Get Hundreds of quality One Way/3 Way & Reciprocal links to your Site Learn how you can get "whitelisted" with Yahoo, AOL, and Hotmail - and guarantee the delivery of every email you send

    MyLinkVault Newest Links 2009

  • ( "whitelisted") applications to execute, application whitelisting solutions eliminate the damage caused by all other applications that are not allowed to run, including malware and unauthorized applications.

    ThomasNet Industrial Newsroom - Today's New Product News 2008

  • Once Comcast looked at the emails and saw they were political, they were whitelisted again in relatively short order.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

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