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white list

noun

  1. a list of countries considered to pose an insignificant threat to human rights, from which applications for political asylum are presumed to be unfounded
  2. computing
    1. a list of websites considered to have inoffensive and acceptable content
    2. a list of e-mail addresses from which a computer will accept mail


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Example Sentences

The first step taken to carry out these objects was to prepare a "white list" of stores coming up to a certain standard.

Do you think they will pass up anything good because the store is not on their White List?

Upon the breast there is a white list of a triangular shape; and the muzzle is also a dirty yellowish white.

But they ingeniously evaded this obstacle by publishing a white list of those which treated their people decently and kindly.

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