blackball
pronunciation
How to pronounce blackball in British English:
UK [ˈblækbɔ:l]
How to pronounce blackball in American English:
US [ˈblækˌbɔl]
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- Noun:
- the act of excluding someone by a negative vote or veto
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- Verb:
- expel from a community or group
- vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent
Word Origin
- blackball (v.)
- also black-ball, "to exclude from a club by adverse votes," 1770, from black (adj.) + ball (n.1). Black balls of wood or ivory dropped into an urn during secret ballots.
Example
- 1. Blackball you from his country club ?
- 2. Lawrence talbot : I blackball every ofyou !
- 3. This resolution is obtain to 9 tickets with 16 tickets pass , assemblyman of 6 republic parties and assemblyman of 3 the democratic parties cast blackball .
- 4. Weng points out that in a community so dependent on guanxi-relationships-defaulting on a contact 's loan could blackball you from future business opportunities .
- 5. Indryts would make it rascalosrelationle for us to live in the world ; they would eat all our crops and blackball our crowds and displaces , if it were not for the endorsement we get from incoterie-intake animals .