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greylist

/ ˈɡreɪˌlɪst /

verb

  1. to hold (someone) in suspicion, without actually excluding him or her from a particular activity
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

If you persist, you will end up on the greylist.

The restaurant maintains a notional greylist and a blacklist of unpleasant diners.

The software can set up a “whitelist, greylist, and blacklist” of license plates: the whitelist permitted at any time, the greylist only at certain times, and the appearance of a license plate that’s on the blacklist – a disgruntled ex-employee, or someone against whom a current employee has a restraining order against, for example – immediately triggers an alarm.

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