Debarred vs Blacklist - What's the difference?
debarred | blacklist |
(debar)
To exclude or shut out; to bar.
(US, legal) To prohibit a person or company that has been convicted of criminal acts in connection with an application for approval of a new drug from participating in future applications.
(legal) A list or collection of people or entities to be shunned or banned.
To place on a ; to mark a person or entity as one to be shunned or banned.
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As verbs the difference between debarred and blacklist
is that debarred is past tense of debar while blacklist is to place on a blacklist; to mark a person or entity as one to be shunned or banned.As a noun blacklist is
a list or collection of people or entities to be shunned or banned.debarred
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(head)Anagrams
*debar
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(debarr)Usage notes
* Not to be confused with (disbar).Derived terms
* debarmentAnagrams
*blacklist
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(wikipedia blacklist)Noun
(en noun)- The software included a lengthy blacklist of disreputable websites to block.
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* greylist * whitelistVerb
(en verb)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.}}