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Webster 1913 Edition
Blacklist
Black′listˊ
,Verb.
T.
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;
as, to
. See blacklist
a workman who has been dischargedBlack list
, under Black
, Adj.
If you
blacklist
us, we will boycott you. John Swinton.
Definition 2024
blacklist
blacklist
English
Noun
blacklist (plural blacklists)
- (law) A list or collection of people or entities to be shunned or banned.
- The software included a lengthy blacklist of disreputable websites to block.
Antonyms
Translations
list or collection of people or entities to be shunned or banned
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Verb
blacklist (third-person singular simple present blacklists, present participle blacklisting, simple past and past participle blacklisted)
- (transitive) To place on a blacklist; to mark a person or entity as one to be shunned or banned.
- 2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
- As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.
- You can blacklist known spammers with that button.
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Derived terms
Translations
to place on a blacklist
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