Blackball vs Exclude - What's the difference?
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A rejection, a vote against admitting someone.
A black ball used to indicate such a negative vote.
the act of so rejecting someone.
A kind of large black sweet; a niggerball.
A substance for blacking shoes, boots, etc. or for taking impressions of engraved work.
To vote against, especially in an exclusive organization.
*1898 , Willa Cather, The Westbound Train
*:Why, if I had known you all my life I should have grown up in the condition of Adam before the fall, and they would have blackballed me at the clubs.
To ostracize.
To bar (someone) from entering; to keep out.
To expel; to put out.
(legal, of evidence) To refuse to accept as valid.
(medicine) To eliminate from diagnostic consideration.
Blackball is a related term of exclude.
As verbs the difference between blackball and exclude
is that blackball is to vote against, especially in an exclusive organization while exclude is to bar (someone) from entering; to keep out.As a noun blackball
is a rejection, a vote against admitting someone.blackball
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(exclud)- to exclude young animals from the womb or from eggs