black·list
ˈblak-ˌlist 
1
: a list of persons who are disapproved of or are to be punished or boycotted
2
: a list of banned or excluded things of disreputable character
a domain-name blacklist
… helped the government keep marijuana on the blacklist.—
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blacklisted; blacklisting; blacklists
: to put on a blacklist
blacklister
noun
Examples of blacklist in a Sentence
Noun
He's on the FBI's blacklist.
The rental company has created a blacklist of bad drivers.
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Gabe Kaminsky, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 18 Dec. 2024
Why Keyword Blocking Is The Wrong Measure In my opinion, creating blacklists of keywords is the most standard brand safety measure, as well as its most typical trap.
—Roman Vrublivskyi, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
Brad Dress, The Hill, 11 Dec. 2024
In fact, both sides of the Israel divide say they are being boycotted and blacklisted as the conflict drags on in its second year and claim that secret dossiers are being kept by opposing camps to document who is deemed unhireable.
—Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 5 Dec. 2024
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Noun
The Washington Examiner first reported that the GEC funded a British group called the Global Disinformation Index, which crafted a blacklist of conservative media outlets to defund them and worked to pressure advertisers.
—Gabe Kaminsky, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 18 Dec. 2024
Why Keyword Blocking Is The Wrong Measure In my opinion, creating blacklists of keywords is the most standard brand safety measure, as well as its most typical trap.
—Roman Vrublivskyi, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
Verb
Johnson, meanwhile, touted measures that would prohibit the Department of Defense from working with vendors that have boycotted Israel and banning the Pentagon from contracting with advertising firms that blacklist conservative news sources.
—Brad Dress, The Hill, 11 Dec. 2024
In fact, both sides of the Israel divide say they are being boycotted and blacklisted as the conflict drags on in its second year and claim that secret dossiers are being kept by opposing camps to document who is deemed unhireable.
—Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 5 Dec. 2024
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“Blacklist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blacklist. Accessed 25 Dec. 2024.
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