Define the word Blacklist"Blacklist" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Blacklist \Black"list`\, v. 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 blacklist a workman who has
been discharged. See Black list, under Black, a.
[1913 Webster]
If you blacklist us, we will boycott you. --John
Swinton.
[1913 Webster] black lung
"blacklist" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
blacklist
n : a list of people who are out of favor [syn: black book, shitlist]
v : put on a blacklist so as to banish or cause to be boycotted;
"many books were blacklisted by the Nazis"
"blacklist" moby-thes "Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0"
30 Moby Thesaurus words for "blacklist":
anathematize, attaint, ban, banish, banishment, blackball, boycott,
boycottage, bring home to, censure, condemn, convict, damn,
denounce, denunciate, disfellowship, doom, excommunicate,
find guilty, ostracism, ostracization, ostracize, outlaw,
pass sentence on, penalize, pronounce judgment, pronounce sentence,
proscribe, proscription, sentence
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