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  1. whitelistnoun

    A list or collection of people or entities that are known, trusted or explicitly permitted.

  2. whitelistverb

    To place on a whitelist; to mark or note a person or entity as trustworthy or acceptable.

Wikipedia

  1. Whitelist

    A whitelist, allowlist, or passlist is a mechanism which explicitly allows some identified entities to access a particular privilege, service, mobility, or recognition i.e. it is a list of things allowed when everything is denied by default. It is the opposite of a blacklist, which is a list of things denied when everything is allowed by default.

The New Hacker's Dictionary

  1. whitelist

    The opposite of a blacklist. That is, instead of being an explicit list of people who are banned, it's an explicit list of people who are to be admitted. Hackers use this especially of lists of email addresses that are explicitly enabled to get past strict anti-spam filters.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of whitelist in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of whitelist in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of whitelist in a Sentence

  1. Bob Gourley:

    Think of whitelisting like a bouncer in the VIP line at the party. If you are on the list you get in, if you are not, you get bounced to the pavement, whitelisting happens by design. The IT professionals who whitelist devices at places like the White House only add the email addresses authorized by management. To do otherwise would be to violate policy in ways that could introduce threats to the system.

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