whitelist

[ wahyt-list, hwahyt- ]

/ ˈwaɪtˌlɪst, ˈʰwaɪt- /

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noun Also white list .

a list of novels, motion pictures, etc., deemed suitable for juveniles, members of a particular faith, or other specified groups of individuals.

a list of people thought by a business concern to be qualified or otherwise suitable for employment.

a list of business establishments approved for patronage because of hiring practices, religious or political affiliations, etc.

a list kept by a labor union, containing the names of employers who maintain working conditions approved by the union.

a list of individuals, organizations, etc., having security clearance from government officials.

Digital Technology.

a list of email addresses or web addresses that are allowed to pass through a spam filter: The company sent a reminder to their shoppers to add the new-orders email to their whitelist, or else receipts could be snagged by the spam filter.
a list of trusted software programs allowed to access a device or operating system: The antivirus program can’t fully protect your computer if you keep overriding it to add apps to its whitelist.

a list of places to or from which one may travel without restriction: a whitelist where tourists are permitted entry without mandatory quarantine.

verb (used with object) Also white-list .

to put on a whitelist.

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Origin of whitelist

First recorded in 1905–10; white + list¹, modeled on blacklist

Words nearby whitelist

white light, white lightning, whiteline, white-lipped peccary, white liquor, whitelist, white-livered, white lung, whitely, white magic, white mahogany

How to use whitelist in a sentence

Before the launch, advertisers were only able to participate in property promotion ads through a whitelist, but now you’ll be able to participate directly through the Google Ads interface.
Google announces global launch of property promotion ads for hotels|Carolyn Lyden|March 24, 2021|Search Engine Land

British Dictionary definitions for whitelist

white list

noun

a list of countries considered to pose an insignificant threat to human rights, from which applications for political asylum are presumed to be unfounded

computing

a list of websites considered to have inoffensive and acceptable content
a list of e-mail addresses from which a computer will accept mail

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