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plural blacklists
(law, computing) A list or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned, disallowed or blocked. examples
third-person singular simple present blacklists, present participle blacklisting, simple past and past participle blacklisted
(transitive) To place on a blacklist; to mark a person or entity as one to be shunned or banned. quotations examples
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.
2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848