Other forms: blacklisted, blacklisting, blacklists
A blacklist is a list of people an industry refuses to employ. On the blacklist, blacklisted for years, an industry blacklist.
The Hollywood blacklist of the late 1940s and 1950s is the defining case: writers and actors were denied work without any charge being brought, and some worked for years under other names. Construction blacklisting in Britain was found unlawful and settled in 2016. In computing a blacklist blocks listed addresses, though blocklist is now often preferred.
1nounblacklistA list of people an industry refuses to employ.
“The union leader found himself on a blacklist, and no factory would hire him.”
2verbputTo put somebody on such a list.
“The company blacklisted every worker who joined the strike.”
blacklist is a list of the excluded.
Black plus list, from the seventeenth century for a list of those to be punished. The colour carried the sense of disgrace.
From black + list. From black + list.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in Work & Careers