whitelist

[ wahyt-list, hwahyt- ]

nounAlso white list .
  1. a list of novels, motion pictures, etc., deemed suitable for juveniles, members of a particular faith, or other specified groups of individuals.

  2. a list of people thought by a business concern to be qualified or otherwise suitable for employment.

  1. a list of business establishments approved for patronage because of hiring practices, religious or political affiliations, etc.

  2. a list kept by a labor union, containing the names of employers who maintain working conditions approved by the union.

  3. a list of individuals, organizations, etc., having security clearance from government officials.

  4. Digital Technology.

    • a list of email addresses or web addresses that are allowed to pass through a spam filter: The company sent a reminder to their shoppers to add the new-orders email to their whitelist, or else receipts could be snagged by the spam filter.

    • a list of trusted software programs allowed to access a device or operating system: The antivirus program can’t fully protect your computer if you keep overriding it to add apps to its whitelist.

  5. a list of places to or from which one may travel without restriction: a whitelist where tourists are permitted entry without mandatory quarantine.

verb (used with object)Also white-list .
  1. to put on a whitelist.

Origin of whitelist

1
First recorded in 1905–10; white + list1, modeled on blacklist

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British Dictionary definitions for white list

white list

noun
  1. a list of countries considered to pose an insignificant threat to human rights, from which applications for political asylum are presumed to be unfounded

  2. computing

    • a list of websites considered to have inoffensive and acceptable content

    • a list of e-mail addresses from which a computer will accept mail

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