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Перевод: blackball

[существительное]
черный шар;
[глагол]
забаллотировать

Тезаурус:

1. We'll blackball him for a start
2. It was not just the veto which caused a crisis of confidence: every member had the right to blackball an applicant.
3. It seems that Gould was determined to blackball his talented, but temporary, artist.
4. Traditionally, the word "black" has had a meaning as dishonourable, sinister and evil and terms like "to black", "blacken", "blackball", "black mark", "blackleg", "blackspot", "blacklist", "black market", "blackguard", "black sheep" and "blackmail" refer to anti-social or wicked behaviour.
5. Despite official denials that a blackball system exists, it has all the characteristics of a club, or as one member boasted, "the Mafia".
6. Some time previously and after a wait of five years my name had been proposed and seconded for membership, but when my proposer heard that two members were of a mind to blackball me in the ballot, he (without telling me) withdrew my candidature.