look-out book

English

Noun

look-out book (plural look-out books)

  1. An official list of people who should not be admitted to a country.
    • 1965, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations, Departments of State, Justice, and Commerce, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations
      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.
    • 1987, In Defense of the Alien: Proceedings
      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, […]
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