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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a list of people who are out of favor [syn: blacklist, black book, shitlist] v
1: put on a blacklist so as to banish or cause to be boycotted; "many books were blacklisted by the Nazis"

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Date: circa 1619 a list of persons who are disapproved of or are to be punished or boycotted II. transitive verb Date: 1718 to put on a blacklist • blacklister noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. a list of persons under suspicion, in disfavour, etc. --v.tr. put the name of (a person) on a blacklist.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(blacklists, blacklisting, blacklisted) 1. If someone is on a blacklist, they are seen by a government or other organization as being one of a number of people who cannot be trusted or who have done something wrong. A government official disclosed that they were on a secret blacklist... N-COUNT 2. If someone is blacklisted by a government or organization, they are put on a blacklist. He has been blacklisted since being convicted of possessing marijuana in 1969. ...the full list of blacklisted airports. VERB: usu passive, be V-ed, V-ed • blacklisting ...a victim of Hollywood's notorious blacklisting.

Moby Thesaurus

anathematize, attaint, ban, banish, banishment, blackball, boycott, boycottage, bring home to, censure, condemn, convict, damn, denounce, denunciate, disfellowship, doom, excommunicate, find guilty, ostracism, ostracization, ostracize, outlaw, pass sentence on, penalize, pronounce judgment, pronounce sentence, proscribe, proscription, sentence