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to whitelist

to whitelist

1 5.4
To add a person, program, or address to a list so they can access a system
  • verb
  • /ˈwaɪtˌlɪst/
  • Specialized
translation icon : agregar a la lista blanca
  • For the last few years, I've been lucky enough to benefit from a whitelisted Twitter API key (granted for research purposes) that has allowed me 20,000 calls per hour.

Examples

  • The good news is that Google appears to have whitelisted a few domains, as the BBC and Wikipedia articles mentioned in the DMCA notice above were not censored.

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  • Let your recipients know how to whitelist your email ID

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  • In some cases, for example, NGOs using this will only whitelist their own employees.

  • Those sites should be whitelisted and everything else blocked.

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  • Individual email services have their own methods of whitelisting email IDs, and they are easy to locate.

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  • Just to make sure that the email service they are using (Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail, etc.) hasn't blacklisted your email ID, before they subscribe, quickly educate them on how to whitelist your email ID.

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  • To receive the newsletter, make sure to whitelist our email address in your settings.

  • If you want to access the website, you must whitelist it on your network's firewall.

  • The software allows users to whitelist specific applications to enhance security.

Antonyms

19 4.4

To put someone or something on a list so people avoid them

How Allowed

to whitelist
  • Specialized
1 5.4
to permit
531 1.5
to restrict
361 3.1
to block
3.0

Surface Forms

whitelist infinitive
whitelisted past participle
whitelisting present participle
whitelists third person singular

Etymology

To whitelist is a verb from the noun whitelist and means to add something to a whitelist, marking it as 'allowed' or 'safe'. So to whitelist a person, email, or program is to give it permission to access or run.