BLACKLIST


Meaning of BLACKLIST in English

I. verb

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Members of the Communist party were blacklisted and had great difficulty finding work.

More than 200 people in the movie industry were blacklisted during the McCarthy era.

When she tried to get a loan she found she had been blacklisted.

II. noun

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

They are on the blacklist of companies that pollute the environment.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A breakdown of the trades involved in the faults appears to show bricklayers at the top of the blacklist .

Consumer groups wished to give the Annex the status of a blacklist .

I thought the blacklist would have lost its sting with the collapse of the price of oil.

The country wants to be removed from a blacklist of 15 countries whose banks are suspected of laundering money.

The existing blacklist of substances not to be dumped at sea would be superseded by the blanket ban.

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