- a list of novels, motion pictures, etc., deemed suitable for juveniles, members of a particular faith, or other specified groups of individuals.
- a list of people thought by a business concern to be qualified or otherwise suitable for employment.
- a list of business establishments approved for patronage because of hiring practices, religious or political affiliations, etc.
- a list kept by a labor union, containing the names of employers who maintain working conditions approved by the union.
- a list of individuals, organizations, etc., having security clearance from government officials.
- Digital Technology.
- a list of email addresses or web addresses that are allowed to pass through a spam filter: The company sent a reminder to their shoppers to add the new-orders email to their whitelist, or else receipts could be snagged by the spam filter.
- a list of trusted software programs allowed to access a device or operating system: The antivirus program can’t fully protect your computer if you keep overriding it to add apps to its whitelist.
- a list of places to or from which one may travel without restriction: a whitelist where tourists are permitted entry without mandatory quarantine.
- to put on a whitelist.
- a list of countries considered to pose an insignificant threat to human rights, from which applications for political asylum are presumed to be unfounded
- computing
- a list of websites considered to have inoffensive and acceptable content
- a list of e-mail addresses from which a computer will accept mail
