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black⋅list

  [blak-list]
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–noun
1. a list of persons under suspicion, disfavor, censure, etc.: His record as an anarchist put him on the government's blacklist.
2. a list privately exchanged among employers, containing the names of persons to be barred from employment because of untrustworthiness or for holding opinions considered undesirable.
3. a list drawn up by a labor union, containing the names of employers to be boycotted for unfair labor practices.
–verb (used with object)
4. to put (a person, group, company, etc.) on a blacklist.
Origin:
1610–20; black + list 1

Synonyms:
4. blackball, bar, debar, proscribe, ban, shun, ostracize.
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black·list   (blāk'lĭst')   
n.  A list of persons or organizations that have incurred disapproval or suspicion or are to be boycotted or otherwise penalized.
tr.v.   black·list·ed, black·list·ing, black·lists
To place on or as if on a blacklist. See Synonyms at blackball.
black'list'er n.
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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.

If you blacklist us, we will boycott you. --John Swinton.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : blacklist
Spanish: lista negra,
German: die schwarze Liste,
Japanese: ブラックリスト
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blacklist

Concerted action by employers to deny employment to someone suspected of unacceptable opinions or behavior. For example, individual workers suspected of favoring labor unions have often been blacklisted by all the employers in a region.

Note: During the McCarthy era (see Joseph P. McCarthy) in the 1950s, the careers of many public figures suspected of communist activities were ruined by blacklisting.
The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
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