blacklist

From black +‎ list.

• IPA^(key): /ˈblæklɪst/

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blacklist (plural blacklists)

1. (law, computing) A list or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned, disallowed or blocked.

   Synonyms: blocklist, denylist

   Antonyms: allowlist, fair list, greylist, whitelist

   Hyponym: no-fly list

   The software included a lengthy blacklist of disreputable websites to block.

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.

blacklist (third-person singular simple present blacklists, present participle blacklisting, simple past and past participle blacklisted)

1. (transitive) 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.

   • 2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:

     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.

• blackball, send to Coventry; see also Thesaurus:ignore or Thesaurus:boycott

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