black list
Registry of outcasts
A black list is a register of people or entities to be excluded, denied privileges, or subjected to sanctions.
Employers kept black lists of union organizers; governments maintain black lists of sanctioned individuals or terrorist organizations.
To black list someone is to place them on such a list: The studio black listed screenwriters suspected of Communist sympathies.
Often written as one word: blacklist.
- ostracismBanishment from a group
- social deathTotal loss of social standing
- sanctionsPunitive international restrictions
- trade embargoBan on commercial exchange
- shamePainful awareness of failure
name and shame · prohibition · exclusion · banishment · out in the cold · firewall · taboo · blocklist · penalty · embargo · persona non grata · discrimination · censorship · cancel culture · blackball · burn book · boycott · restriction
- Color Idiomsblue moon, green light, red flag, white lie, golden rule
black listwhite list
Approved access roster
whitelist · allow list · guest list · honor roll · A-list