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Word definitions in Wikipedia
In employment, blacklisting refers to denying people employment for either political reasons (due to actual or suspected political affiliation), due to a history of trade union activity, or due to a history of whistleblowing , for example on safety or corruption ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also black-list , black list , "list of persons who have incurred suspicion," 1610s, from black (adj.), here indicative of disgrace, censure, punishment (attested from 1590s, in black book ) + list (n.). Specifically of employers' list of workers considered ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. verb EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Members of the Communist party were blacklisted and had great difficulty finding work. ▪ More than 200 people in the movie industry were blacklisted during the McCarthy era. ▪ When she tried to get a loan she found ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a list of people who are out of favor [syn: black book , shitlist ] v. put on a blacklist so as to banish or cause to be boycotted; "many books were blacklisted by the Nazis"
Usage examples of blacklist.
Haymarket, class conflict and violence continued, with strikes, lockouts, blacklisting, the use of Pinkerton detectives and police to break strikes with force, and courts to break them by law.
The eminent historian Ronald Radosh is blacklisted from every university in the nation because he wrote the book definitively proving the guilt of executed spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
While tens of millions were being executed, torn from their families, subjected to forced starvations as a matter of government policy, packed on trains, and sent to Siberian gulags in the glorious USSR, about two hundred people in America were blacklisted from a single frivolous industry.
Leo Penn, who was blacklisted by Hollywood studios for five years after refusing to testify during the Communist scare of the McCarthy years.
Poor Harry got blacklisted, and it just took the wind out of his sails.
Before she was spotted and blacklisted from the casinos, she went legal.
One phone call, and he can get you fired from your job and blacklisted for sins you never considered, much less committed.
So once you get blacklisted on the Strip, for any reason at all, you either get out of town or retire to nurse your act along, on the cheap, in the shoddy limbo of North Vegas.
Deserving of the most hysterical liberal blacklisting for helping me with this book are: M.
Honorable though it was, the Hollywood blacklisting had nothing to do with McCarthy.
In a modern version of the Iran-Iraq war, actor Sean Penn accused Steve Bing, Hollywood producer and general degenerate, of blacklisting him from a film in retaliation for his peacenik activities.
Eisenhower then ordered a secret, systematic blacklisting of the listed individuals throughout the federal government.
Rejected by several other casinos -- paranoid visions of a deadly blacklisting nibbling at the edges of his mind -- he was finally taken on at the Sand Dollar Saloon, a tacky grind joint for low-rolling tourists where the dealers dressed in fringed satin shirts, knotted bandannas, and ten-gallon hats.
Populists, militant miners, and blacklisted railroad workers, who were assisted by a remarkable cadre of professional agitators and educators and inspired by occasional visits from national figures like Eugene V.
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