Word.ws English Dictionary

no fly list

no fly list is the alternative form of no-fly list.

Meaning of no-fly list

Noun

no-fly list (plural no-fly lists)

  1. 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.
    • 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.2005 April 18, Timothy J. Burger, “Extending the No-Fly Zone”, in Time

Forms of no fly list

pluralno fly lists

Questions about no fly list

What is no fly list the alternative form of?
No fly list is the alternative form of no-fly list.

Words near no fly list in the dictionary

  1. no fear
  2. no fidelity
  3. no fish, no dinner
  4. no fixed abode
  5. no flies on
  6. no fly list
  7. no fly lists
  8. no free lunch
  9. no free lunch theorem
  10. no frills
  11. no fun

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: no fly list (page history and authors); no-fly list (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “no fly list.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/no_fly_list. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.