Exclude

[ɪk'skluːd;ek-] or [ɪk'sklʊd]

Definition

(verb.) prevent from being included or considered or accepted; 'The bad results were excluded from the report'; 'Leave off the top piece'.

(verb.) prevent from entering; shut out; 'The trees were shutting out all sunlight'; 'This policy excludes people who have a criminal record from entering the country'.

(verb.) lack or fail to include; 'The cost for the trip excludes food and beverages'.

Typist: Ruth--From WordNet

Definition

(v. t.) To shut out; to hinder from entrance or admission; to debar from participation or enjoyment; to deprive of; to except; -- the opposite to admit; as, to exclude a crowd from a room or house; to exclude the light; to exclude one nation from the ports of another; to exclude a taxpayer from the privilege of voting.

(v. t.) To thrust out or eject; to expel; as, to exclude young animals from the womb or from eggs.

Editor: Percival

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. [1]. Bar, debar, preclude, reject, shut out.[2]. Prohibit, restrain, hinder, withhold.[3]. Expel, eject, thrust out.

Typed by Cyril

Synonyms and Antonyms

[See ADMIT]

Edited by Juanita

Definition

v.t. to close or shut out: to thrust out: to hinder from entrance: to hinder from participation: to except.—ns. Exclu′sion a shutting or putting out: ejection: exception; Exclu′sionism; Exclu′sionist one who excludes or would exclude another from a privilege.—adj. Exclu′sive able or tending to exclude: debarring from participation: sole: not taking into account.—n. one of a number who exclude others from their society.—adv. Exclu′sively.—ns. Exclu′siveness; Exclu′sivism.—adj. Exclu′sory exclusive.—Exclusive dealing the act of abstaining deliberately from any business or other transactions with persons of opposite political or other convictions to one's own—a euphemism for boycotting (q.v.).

Typist: Nora

Examples

Inputed by Ethel

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