Blackball vs. Blacklist

Blackballnoun

(countable) A rejection; a vote against admitting someone.

Blackballnoun

(countable) A black ball used to indicate such a negative vote.

Blackballnoun

(countable) A kind of large black sweet; a niggerball.

Blackballnoun

A substance for blacking shoes, boots, etc. or for taking impressions of engraved work.

Blackballnoun

(uncountable) A game, a standardized version of the English version of eight-ball.

Blackballverb

(transitive) To vote against, especially in an exclusive organization.

Blackballverb

(transitive) To ostracize.

Blackballnoun

A composition for blacking shoes, boots, etc.; also, one for taking impressions of engraved work.

Blackballnoun

A ball of black color, esp. one used as a negative in voting; - in this sense usually two words.

Blackballverb

To vote against, by putting a black ball into a ballot box; to reject or exclude, as by voting against with black balls; to ostracize.

Blackballverb

To blacken (leather, shoes, etc.) with blacking.

Blackballnoun

the act of excluding someone by a negative vote or veto

Blackballverb

expel from a community or group

Blackballverb

vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent;

Blacklistnoun

A list or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned.

Blacklistverb

(transitive) To place on a blacklist; to mark a person or entity as one to be shunned or banned.

Blacklistverb

To put in a black list as deserving of suspicion, censure, or punishment; esp. to put in a list of persons stigmatized as insolvent or untrustworthy, - as tradesmen and employers do for mutual protection; as, to blacklist a workman who has been discharged. See Black list, under Black, a.

Blacklistnoun

a list of people who are out of favor

Blacklistverb

put on a blacklist so as to banish or cause to be boycotted;