Blacklist

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.


     [1913 Webster]
  
           If you blacklist us, we will boycott you. --John
                                                    Swinton.
     [1913 Webster] black lung

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  30 Moby Thesaurus words for "blacklist":
     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