trigger list
n.— «So Barney did some digging and found out he was on something called a trigger list. It’s a list compiled by the credit bureaus, in this case, of people applying for home loans. “The credit bureaus are sort of sending out your information to third-party providers that are then selling that to competing lenders in your area.”» —“Homebuyer’s personal info sold on ‘trigger list’” by Lori Matsukawa KING5 (Seattle, Washington) Apr. 28, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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