look-out book

noun

An official list of people who should not be admitted to a country.

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Meanings

nounlook-out book (plural look-out books)

plural look-out books

  1. An official list of people who should not be admitted to a country.

    We have this stupid look out book which is going to get worse because they are going to computerize it. The look out book keeps you out of this country, […]

    1987, In Defense of the Alien: Proceedings
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    Thanks to assistance from the automation people, we now have a better look-out book. […] For every post we have a book with about 80,000 names of people to whom visas should not be issued prior to consulting with the Department, another post, or a district office of the Immigration and Naturalization Service.

    1965, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations, Departments of State, Justice, and Commerce, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations
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