blacklisting
Sign in to saveBlacklisting is the action of a group or authority compiling a blacklist of people, countries or other entities to be avoided or distrusted as being deemed unacceptable to those making the list; if people are on a blacklist, then they are considered to have done something wrong, or they are considered to be untrustworthy. As a verb, blacklist can mean to put an individual or entity on such a list. A blacklist is synonymous with a list of banned persons or organizations, and is the opposite of a whitelist.
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- Origins of the term
- History
- Employment
- Hollywood blacklist
- Spanish Civil War and communists blacklisted
- World Wars I and II
- Medical context
- 2004 Venezuelan recall referendum
- Zionism
- Computing
- Terminology concerns
- See also
- References
- Further reading
Blacklisting is the action of a group or authority compiling a blacklist of people, countries or other entities to be avoided or distrusted as being deemed unacceptable to those making the list; if people are on a blacklist, then they are considered to have done something wrong, or they are considered to be untrustworthy. As a verb, blacklist can mean to put an individual or entity on such a list. A blacklist is synonymous with a list of banned persons or organizations, and is the opposite of a whitelist.
== Origins of the term == The English dramatist Philip Massinger used the phrase "black list" in his 1639 tragedy The Unnatural Combat.