Blacklist vs Exclude - What's the difference?
blacklist | exclude | Synonyms |
(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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, title= To bar (someone) from entering; to keep out.
To expel; to put out.
(legal, of evidence) To refuse to accept as valid.
(medicine) To eliminate from diagnostic consideration.
As verbs the difference between blacklist and exclude
is that blacklist is to place on a blacklist; to mark a person or entity as one to be shunned or banned while exclude is to bar (someone) from entering; to keep out.As a noun blacklist
is a list or collection of people or entities to be shunned or banned.blacklist
English
(wikipedia blacklist)Noun
(en noun)- The software included a lengthy blacklist of disreputable websites to block.
Antonyms
* 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.}}
Derived terms
* blacklisterAnagrams
*exclude
English
Verb
(exclud)- to exclude young animals from the womb or from eggs