Associations to the word «Blacklisting»

Wiktionary

BLACKLIST, noun. (legal) A list or collection of people or entities to be shunned or banned.
BLACKLIST, verb. (transitive) To place on a blacklist; to mark a person or entity as one to be shunned or banned.

Dictionary definition

BLACKLIST, noun. A list of people who are out of favor.
BLACKLIST, verb. Put on a blacklist so as to banish or cause to be boycotted; "many books were blacklisted by the Nazis".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne