Definition of Blacklist

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Blacklist

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.

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Blacklist Quotations

We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
Langston Hughes

There's always some kind of blacklist throughout history. But the difference is, in America they usually let you live.
Rip Torn

Not a single person I named hadn't already been named at least a half-dozen times and wasn't already on he blacklist.
Edward Dmytryk

Blacklist Translations

blacklist in German is schwarze Liste
blacklist in Spanish is poner en la lista negra

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