| 词汇 | blackball |
| 释义 | blackball verb[ T ] uk /ˈblæk.bɔːl/ us /ˈblæk.bɑːl/ to vote against allowing someone to be a member of an organization or group: 投票反对…加入 He was initially blackballed because of a dispute he once had with a couple of the committee members.最初投票否决了他的入会申请，因为他曾与委员会的几个成员发生过争执。 Organizations - joining & leaving addition anti-assimilation assimilation assimilationist assimilative assimilatory disenrollment enrol enrolment enter entrant entry entryway exit from something initiation ceremony joiner non-joiner onto receive sit Examples of blackballblackball Therefore, it is unlikely that blackballing activities caused or heightened voter cynicism. Moreover, the rebuttal excuses often provided by the blackballed candidates made voters even more cynical about the politicians and the political process in general. Based on the above district level analysis, the blackballing campaign did not decrease voter turnout. Similarly, whether voters are in the district where one of the candidates is the blackballed or zealously blackballed is not significant at 10% level. Also, we include the dummy variables indicating whether voters are in the districts where the candidates are either blackballed or zealously blackballed. More specifically, blackballing reduced an average candidate's vote share by about 5%, and thereby may have changed election outcomes in many close races. Anyone put up for election could be "pilled" or blackballed. We shall call them zealously blackballed. There will have to be safeguards, as situations could arise in which someone who is wrongly listed is blackballed from work because of an error. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They decided that the rule should be that they would have a ballot, and one blackball should exclude. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is it going to be sent round to see whether anybody is going to "blackball" it? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Most clubs are exclusive in the sense that you can be blackballed because people do not want you. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That would be simply intolerable and probably have the effect of a blackball in any referendum. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 She cuts somebody, and the man is blackballed in his club. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is no need to explain why he was blackballed or by whom. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open 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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