blacklisting

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Verb[edit]

blacklisting

  1. present participle and gerund of blacklist

Noun[edit]

blacklisting (plural blacklistings)

  1. The act of placing onto a blacklist.
    • 2009 February 22, Kevin Baker, “Blood on the Street”, in New York Times[1]:
      Efforts to unionize were routinely met with clubbings, shootings, jailings, blacklistings and executions, perpetrated not only by well-armed legions of company goons, but also by police officers, deputies, National Guardsmen and even regular soldiers.