blackballed
past simple and past participle ofblackball
| 单词 | blackballed |
| 释义 | blackballed past simple and past participle ofblackball blackball verb[T] uk/ˈblæk.bɔːl/us/ˈblæk.bɑːl/tovoteagainstallowingsomeone to be amemberof anorganizationorgroup: He wasinitiallyblackballed because of adisputeheoncehad with acoupleof thecommitteemembers. Organizations - joining & leaving
Examplesofblackballedblackballed In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. In short, the turnout rates were higher in districts withblackballedcandidates, and this is particularly true in urban areas. From theCambridge English Corpus Moreover, the rebuttal excuses often provided by theblackballedcandidates made voters even more cynical about the politicians and the political process in general. From theCambridge English Corpus Similarly, whether voters are in the district where one of the candidates is theblackballedor zealouslyblackballedis not significant at 10% level. From theCambridge English Corpus Also, we include the dummy variables indicating whether voters are in the districts where the candidates are eitherblackballedor zealouslyblackballed. From theCambridge English Corpus Anyone put up for election could be "pilled" orblackballed. From theCambridge English Corpus The dummy variable for the zealouslyblackballeddistricts turns out to be insignificant at 10% significance level, and the result is not reported here. From theCambridge English Corpus Again, the difference between theblackballeddistricts and non-blackballeddistricts is significantly different at the 5% significance level. From theCambridge English Corpus Both of the turnout rates in theblackballeddistricts are higher than in the districts without any blackballed candidates (by 2.5 percentage points and 1.0 percentage points respectively). From theCambridge English Corpus We shall call them zealouslyblackballed. From theCambridge English Corpus There will have to be safeguards, as situations could arise in which someone who is wrongly listed isblackballedfrom work because of an error. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Most clubs are exclusive in the sense that you can beblackballedbecause people do not want you. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 She cuts somebody, and the man isblackballedin his club. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 There is no need to explain why he wasblackballedor by whom. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 If that happened in private commercial circles, it would not be tolerated; the person in question would beblackballed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 If the records remain of some of those 1,416 innocent men, and are so recorded on the national computer, they will beblackballedfor life. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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