black-listとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From black +‎ list.

発音

• IPA: /ˈblæklɪst/

名詞

blacklist (plural blacklists)

1. (law, computing) A list or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned, disallowed or blocked.

   Synonyms: blocklist, denylist, hotlist

   Antonyms: allowlist, fair list, greylist, whitelist

   Hyponym: no-fly list

   The software included a lengthy blacklist of disreputable websites to block.

使用する際の注意点

Some speakers prescribe that the words blacklist and whitelist should be replaced with synonyms: they favor blocklist or denylist instead of blacklist, and allowlist instead of whitelist, with a goal of reducing the degree to which natural language reinforces subconscious archetypes whereby blackness equals badness and whiteness equals goodness, which might reinforce racial and ethnic biases. The same effort is made with other terms such as black mark. However, these prescriptions are widely ignored, and the darkness/lightness theme in cognition inevitably persists as a night-and-day archetype regardless of skin color.

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動詞

blacklist (third-person singular simple present blacklists, present participle blacklisting, simple past and past participle blacklisted)

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

   You can blacklist known spammers with that button.

   • 2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist‎, volume 408, number 8848, archived from the original on 10 August 2020:

     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.

同意語

• blackball, send to Coventry; see also Thesaurus:ignore or Thesaurus:boycott

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アナグラム

• stickball