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blacklist

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Proto-Germanic *blakaz
Proto-West Germanic *blak
Old English blæc
Middle English blak
English black
English list
English blacklist

    From black +‎ list.

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    • IPA(key): /ˈblæklɪst/
    • Audio (US):(file)

    Noun

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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, hotlist
      Antonyms: allowlist, fair list, greylist, whitelist
      Hyponym: no-fly list
      The software included a lengthy blacklist of disreputable websites to block.

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    See also Wikipedia:Blacklist#Terminology concerns.

    Some speakers prescribe that the words blacklist and whitelist should be replaced with synonyms: blocklist or denylist instead of blacklist, and allowlist instead of whitelist, with the goal of reducing the degree to which natural language reinforces subconscious archetypes where blackness equals badness and whiteness equals goodness, which may reinforce racial and ethnic biases. The same effort is also made with terms such as black mark.

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    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.
      She blacklisted me from her dorm party since I yakked on her couch last time.
      • 2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist‎[1], volume 408, number 8848, archived from the original on 10 August 2020:
        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.

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