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Redlist vs Blackball - What's the difference?

redlist | blackball |

As a noun blackball is

a rejection, a vote against admitting someone.

As a verb blackball is

to vote against, especially in an exclusive organization.

redlist

Not English

Redlist has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

English words similar to 'redlist':

redlight, rattlest

blackball

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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.