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Blacklist vs Blacklistee - What's the difference?

blacklist | blacklistee |

As nouns the difference between blacklist and blacklistee

is that blacklist is (legal) a list or collection of people or entities to be shunned or banned while blacklistee is one who is blacklisted.

As a verb blacklist

is to place on a ; to mark a person or entity as one to be shunned or banned.

blacklist

English

(wikipedia blacklist)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (legal) A list or collection of people or entities to be shunned or banned.
    • The software included a lengthy blacklist of disreputable websites to block.

    Antonyms

    * greylist * whitelist

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To place on a ; to mark a person or entity as one to be shunned or banned.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= A new prescription , passage=As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.}}

    Derived terms

    * blacklister

    Anagrams

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    blacklistee

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who is blacklisted.