black list

blacklist

1. noun A list of names of people, groups, or organizations who are to be banned, censured, or are under suspicion, as in politics, law enforcement, business, labor unions, etc. The country's government maintains a blacklist of people it deems dangerous. The company circulates a blacklist every year among its employees so they know not to offer jobs or information to people whose views run contrary to its values.
2. verb To put someone on a blacklist, that is, a list of names of people, groups, or organizations who are to be banned, censured, or are under suspicion. The influential writer was blacklisted early in her career for denouncing certain policies of the federal government. If you keep getting into fights there, the bar will eventually blacklist you.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

black list

A list of persons or things considered undesirable or deserving punishment, as in Japanese beetles are on my black list of garden pests. The practice of making such lists is quite old. Notorious examples include the late 19th-century black lists of union members whom employers would not hire and the black lists of persons suspected of being Communists as a result of the hearings held by Senator Joseph R. McCarthy in the early 1950s. Today the term is also used more loosely, as in the example. [Early 1600s] Also see black book, def. 1.
See also: black, list
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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The process to create the first Black List was relatively simple: Leonard asked a handful of peers for 10 of their most recent favorite scripts, tallied the results, and sent them back to those he had queried.
Arena Leisure has Lingfield and Folkestone on the black list, and racing director Ian Renton raised the critical issue of abandonments in a meeting with HG chief executive Alan Morcombe shortly after the new tariff conditions were announced.
"The black list that the Central Register opened in February this year made Macedonian businessmen much more careful when opening or closing firms.
Other enhancements in the new version: black list window has much more power now (you can browse your black list images by double click), critical bug on Windows XP was fixed, correct processing of bad internet connection was added.
The Black List is published in The Voice newspaper annually.
The black list now concerns all carriers in 21 countries (269 in all) fully banned in the EU: Afghanistan, Angola, Benin, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon (except three carriers that are under operating restrictions), Indonesia (with the exception of six carriers), Kazakhstan (apart from one carrier), Kyrgyz Republic, Liberia, Mauritania, Mozambique, Philippines, Sierra Leone, Sao Tome and Principe, Sudan, Swaziland and Zambia.
"The Planning Ministry has decided to lay 433 companies to the black list, due to their incompetence and failure to implement the projects, assigned for their execution," a statement by the Planning Ministry's Undersecretary, Nassar al-Rube'i said.
The "black list" for 2010 contains 23 flag states, two more than in 2009.
He said removing the names of Taliban from the black list and release of their prisoners from jails could promote the environment of trust.
In April Cyprus and the Russian Federation initialled an agreement to avoid double taxation between them, paving the way for Cyprus' removal from the Russian tax black list.
Summary: France has called for a world aviation black list in the wake of a Yemeni airliner crash but the plan would be tough to implement and requires the political will of many governments to succeed.
as a black list. According to Frckoski, in the international law there is no "black list", but only "persona non grata".
Our commercial banks will quickly put your name on the black list if you disagree with them concerning the interest rate on your credit cards.
THE BLACK LIST (Atria Books, $29.95), by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders and Elvis Mitchell, offers a thought-provoking, conversational collection of 25 essays and portraits by trailblazing African-Americans from diverse professional and personal backgrounds.
Will there soon be a new black list at the European level?