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English Dictionary: blacklist by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
blacklist
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"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.
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