blackballing
present 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
- addition
- anti-assimilation
- assimilation
- assimilationist
- assimilative
- assimilatory
- book
- enrol
- enrolment
- entrant
- entry
- entryway
- initiation ceremony
- joiner
- non-joiner
- on the booksidiom
- onto
- overenrolled
- receive
- vote withyourfeetidiom
Examplesofblackballing
blackballing
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Therefore, it is unlikely thatblackballingactivities caused or heightened voter cynicism.
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Rather, theblackballingwas aimed at the public interest that seeks for more moral and/or ethical politicians by a third party.
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Based on the above district level analysis, theblackballingcampaign did not decrease voter turnout.
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More specifically,blackballingreduced an average candidate's vote share by about 5%, and thereby may have changed election outcomes in many close races.
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It turns out that the worry over the reduction of turnout due to suchblackballingis unwarranted.
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If anything, theblackballingincreased voter turnout slightly.
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Finally, in order to examine the effect ofblackballing, controlling for other variables, we performed regression analyses in which the dependent variable is district turnout rate.
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Two can play atblackballing, and they usually do, and sometimes more than two.
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I think a more apt term would beblackballing.
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There is no question ofblackballingany countries who wish to co-operate with us on fair trading terms.
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This is not simply ablackballingexercise.
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In addition, if he goes to law with one council, others of similar political persuasions will find reasons forblackballinghim from any of their contracts.
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If the decision is whether to accept a new member into an organization, failure of this procedure to admit the new member is calledblackballing.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Ablackballingis a disappointment, and should be a rare event in a congenial club where advance notice of candidates is given to members.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He recommended expelling non-institutional members from existing congregations, firing preachers who took this position and cancelling their meetings at institutional churches, andblackballingcongregations that resisted conforming to institutionalism.
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