Definition of "whitelist" []

• A list or collection of people or entities that are known, trusted, or explicitly permitted. (noun)
• To place on a whitelist; to mark or note a person or entity as trustworthy or acceptable. (verb)

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• "Make Android syncing selective: By default, your Android phone syncs your entire “My Contacts” group — great if you’ve kept it tidy, annoying if you only want a certain whitelist of friends and contacts to show up."
• "Plus, nitpicking about terms like blacklist and whitelist is to me like people screaming about banning violent video games and saying nothing about addressing problems of class, race, sexism, and religious discrimination; it’s like trying to bail the Atlantic with a thimble."
• "They don't just ignore your messages if they think you are a spammer (which is good if your emails look like spam but aren't) filters - you can create an unlimited number of filters to do things like auto archive, mark as read, star, label, forward, delete it, and the newer "never send to spam" (aka a whitelist)."