blacklist
- noun
- /ˈblækˌlɪst/
- The organization published a blacklist of suppliers that failed to meet ethical standards.
- terrorist blacklist
Tokyo Electron and WD are backing away from Huawei, which has been struggling with the US trade blacklist over the last month or two.
- Tokyo Electron and WD are backing away from Huawei, which has been struggling with the US trade blacklist over the last month or two.
- And what happened was that the day I joined Twitter, when I posted a link to the Great Barrington Declaration, I was placed on this trend blacklist.
- And also look into the whole blacklist era as well.
Examples
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The company maintains a strict blacklist of employees who have violated company policies.
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There is indeed a Hollywood blacklist against conservatives, and our job is to boycott films.
Blog text (1) -
I understand you have a blacklist of violent men.
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We're already on the blacklist.
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The staff had changing blacklists of women who were no longer allowed inside.
Fiction book (1994) -
If you were on the "Hollywood Blacklist," you couldn't get a job working on a movie.
Blog text (9) -
An officer of the Gang of Four read his name from a blacklist circulated throughout Shanghai.
Fiction book (1991) -
Tokyo Electron and WD are backing away from Huawei, which has been struggling with the US trade blacklist over the last month or two.
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During the McCarthy years, the years of the Hollywood blacklist, paranoia was rampant, and the whole question arose of what it meant to be a patriot.
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After 1968, the political opponent Pavlek was on the regime's blacklist because he had publicly protested against the Soviets.
Academic text (2017)
Synonyms
A list of people to avoid because they are not trusted or are enemies
A list of people someone dislikes and avoids
Antonyms
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Etymology
Blacklist joins black and list, where black was often used to mark things as 'wrong' or 'to be avoided'. So a blacklist is a list of people or groups that an authority or group disapproves of or bans.