no-fly list

See also: no fly list

English

Alternative forms

• no fly list

Noun

no-fly list (plural no-fly lists)

1. (law, aviation) A confidential list containing the names of people who are not permitted to board an aircraft, prepared by government authorities in various jurisdictions and distributed to commercial airlines.

   Hypernyms: blacklist, blocklist, denylist

   • 2005 April 18, Timothy J. Burger, “Extending the No-Fly Zone”, in Time:

     The no-fly list created by U.S. authorities, which singles out passengers who are potential terrorist threats, is the target of frequent criticism that it's incomplete and unreliable.

Translations

list containing the names of people who are not permitted to board an aircraft

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 禁飛名單／禁飞名单 (jìnfēi míngdān)

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• Finnish: lentokieltoluettelo
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References

• “no-fly list”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.