Yes. Create a field in MT termbase called "forbidden". Set it up as a picklist. Then add the term and activate this item.

In Verification settings activate Terminology verification and select this value as forbidden:

Hi Chun-yi, there's an article here that might make it easier to understand.

Hi Chun-yi,

As Walter says this is imortant because this concept allows a lot of flexibility in how you would like to use forbidden terms. Some tools use a blacklist for terms, but this is really quite restrictive because the terms might be appropriate in one scenario, but not in another.

Using the picklist attributes give you the ability to change the rules for forbidden very easily.  I think once you have this set up you'll find it's not as tricky as you may think right now. And once in place you can add forbidden terms on the fly just as easily as non-forbidden terms.

The field itself doesn't have to be called variant. It can be called whatever you like. I think you are just referring to my example where I used the forbidden term concept to distinguish between US and UK English so you didn't need to have separate termbases. A blacklist would be a lot of work in this scenario, and probably many others.

Hi Chun-yi,

Hopefully it will not be too difficult.

Here's a short video to show how simple this can be, and how it can really be based on anything you want.  Hope it's clear and mirrors the process you are going through.  6 minutes long... because I talk too much!

Dear Paul!

I am fighting with the forbidden terms in the MDB....

It´s ok with assigning the Forbidden status to specific terms in Multiterm (following your excellent tutorial). Works perfectly with the Terminology checker properly set.

However, if not, the forbidden term appears in the Terminology window without any indication (highlighted in red or some comment). That means, that if a translator does not activate the Forbidden term notification option (or consult the entire entry), he/she will keep using this term, right?

Or maybe there is some trick to, for example, highlight the forbidden words?

I prepared an example:

Thanks in advance!

Dear Paul!

I am fighting with the forbidden terms in the MDB....

It´s ok with assigning the Forbidden status to specific terms in Multiterm (following your excellent tutorial). Works perfectly with the Terminology checker properly set.

However, if not, the forbidden term appears in the Terminology window without any indication (highlighted in red or some comment). That means, that if a translator does not activate the Forbidden term notification option (or consult the entire entry), he/she will keep using this term, right?

Or maybe there is some trick to, for example, highlight the forbidden words?

I prepared an example:

Thanks in advance!

Yulia Kovalskaya 

The only trick is to use the messages window.  I'm pretty sure there is an "idea" on this that's been there a while.  I think it may become possible to do things like this very soon with changes to the Editor technology and also in the way APIs are available for terminology.  Some very cool things to look forward to for developers anyway... and ultimately users.