blacklist

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Etymology

From black +‎ listCategory:English compound terms#BLACKLIST.

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Noun

blacklist (plural blacklists)Category:English lemmas#BLACKLISTCategory:English nouns#BLACKLISTCategory:English countable nouns#BLACKLISTCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#BLACKLISTCategory:Pages with entries#BLACKLISTCategory:Pages with 1 entry#BLACKLIST

  1. (lawCategory:en:Law#BLACKLIST, computingCategory:en:Computing#BLACKLIST) A list or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned, disallowed or blocked.
    Synonyms: blocklist, denylist, hotlist
    Antonyms: allowlist, fair list, greylist, whitelist
    Hyponym: no-fly list
    The software included a lengthy blacklist of disreputable websites to block.Category:English terms with usage examples#BLACKLIST

Usage notes

  • Blocklist and denylist are advocated by some who argue that terms such as blacklist and black mark ought to be deemphasized because they perpetuate a supposed unconscious archetype that blackness equals badness, which might reinforce racial and ethnic biases.

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blacklist (third-person singular simple present blacklists, present participle blacklisting, simple past and past participle blacklisted)Category:English lemmas#BLACKLISTCategory:English verbs#BLACKLISTCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#BLACKLISTCategory:Pages with entries#BLACKLISTCategory:Pages with 1 entry#BLACKLIST

  1. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#BLACKLIST) To place on a blacklist; to mark a person or entity as one to be shunned or banned.
    You can blacklist known spammers with that button.Category:English terms with usage examples#BLACKLIST
    • 2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist‎, volume 408, number 8848, archived from the original on 10 August 2020:
      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.
      Category:English terms with quotations#BLACKLIST

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