anti-spam

adjective

an·​ti-spam
ˌan-tē-ˈspam,
ˌan-tī- How to pronounce anti-spam (audio)
variants or antispam
: serving or intended to eliminate or reduce spam
anti-spam laws/legislation
antispam filters
… spammers keep coming up with new tricks to work their way around anti-spam technology …Thomas Claburn

Examples of anti-spam in a Sentence

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But spammers can use these domains to flood inboxes with emails, simply creating new domains whenever the old ones are flagged by Microsoft’s anti-spam defenses. PC Magazine, 24 Aug. 2025 Campaigns have broad exemptions from anti-spam laws. Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 27 July 2025 Not only does this mean that the attacker does not need to know the phone numbers of the devices being targeted, but the resulting malicious SMS messages can also evade phone networks' anti-spam and security measures. Davey Winder, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025 The anti-spam tech works by analyzing a conversation for red flags. Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 13 May 2025 The anti-spam protections put in place for Gmail will always walk something of a tightrope between stopping enough spam, a leading distribution channel for malicious actors, and stopping too much genuine email. Davey Winder, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024 For instance, some people have their email client configured to use anti-spam software and spam filters which scan emails for red flags and then re-route messages to the spam folder according to the set criteria. Tyler Shepherd, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1995, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of anti-spam was in 1995

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“Anti-spam.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anti-spam. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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