0 present participle of blackball --
1 to vote against allowing someone to be a member of an organization or group: --
He recommended expelling non-institutional members from existing congregations, firing preachers who took this position and cancelling their meetings at institutional churches, and blackballing congregations that resisted conforming to institutionalism.
A blackballing is a disappointment, and should be a rare event in a congenial club where advance notice of candidates is given to members.
If the decision is whether to accept a new member into an organization, failure of this procedure to admit the new member is called blackballing.
In addition, if he goes to law with one council, others of similar political persuasions will find reasons for blackballing him from any of their contracts.
This is not simply a blackballing exercise.
There is no question of blackballing any countries who wish to co-operate with us on fair trading terms.
I think a more apt term would be blackballing.
Two can play at blackballing, and they usually do, and sometimes more than two.
