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blackball
English
Etymology
black +? ball
Pronunciation
- enPR: bl?k'bôl', IPA(key): /?blækb??l/
Noun
blackball (countable and uncountable, plural blackballs)
- (countable) A rejection; a vote against admitting someone.
- (countable) A black ball used to indicate such a negative vote.
- (countable) A kind of large black sweet; a niggerball.
- A substance for blacking shoes, boots, etc. or for taking impressions of engraved work.
- (uncountable) A game, a standardized version of the English version of eight-ball.
- Synonym: reds and yellows
Verb
blackball (third-person singular simple present blackballs, present participle blackballing, simple past and past participle blackballed)
- (transitive) To vote against, especially in an exclusive organization.
- (transitive) To ostracize.
- Synonyms: blacklist, send to Coventry; see also Thesaurus:ignore, Thesaurus:boycott
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preclude
English
Alternative forms
- præclude (obsolete)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin praecludo.
Pronunciation
- (US, UK) IPA(key): /p???klu?d/, /p?i??klu?d/
- Rhymes: -u?d
Verb
preclude (third-person singular simple present precludes, present participle precluding, simple past and past participle precluded)
- (transitive) Remove the possibility of; rule out; prevent or exclude; to make impossible.
- Israel's decision to ban fluoridation follows a vote to preclude the practice in Portland, Ore., and Wichita, Kan. It was also recently overturned in Hamilton, the fourth most populous city in New Zealand.
Related terms
- preclusion
Derived terms
- precludable
- preclusive
Translations
Italian
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ude
Verb
preclude
- third-person singular present indicative of precludere
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