exclusion

1 the state of being excluded [ant: inclusion]

2 the state of being excommunicated [syn: excommunication, censure]

3 a deliberate act of omission; "with the exception of the children, everyone was told the news" [syn: exception, elision]

4 the act of forcing out someone or something; "the ejection of troublemakers by the police"; "the child's expulsion from school" [syn: ejection, expulsion, riddance]

English

Etymology

< (French: exclusion), exclusio, from excludere.

Noun

1. the act or an instance of excluding
2. the state of being excluded

Antonyms

• inclusion

Related terms

• exclude
• exclusive
• exclusion zone

Translations

• French: exclusion
• Hungarian: kizárás, kirekesztés (1), kizárt (2)
• Italian: esclusione (1,2)

French

Etymology

From exclusio, from excludere.

Noun

fr-noun f

1. exclusion

Exclusive may refer to:

• In journalism, exclusive can refer to information provided to or available from only one news outlet, such as an interview or photograph.
• In the description of any formally defined set, the rules by which an object may be defined as excluded from the set are referred to as rules of exclusion.
• In the description of a mathematical set, the term exclusive denotes that the endpoints of a range are not included within the set. For example, "the integers -2 to 2 exclusive" refers to the set ; the endpoints, -2 and 2, are excluded. The term is generally applied to discrete elements.
• Exclusive or, an operator in Boolean logic
• Exclusive we in linguistics refers to first-person non-singular pronouns that don't include the addressee, i.e. we excluding you
• Exclusive (album), the name of R&B singer Chris Brown's second album
• Exclusive (EP), an EP by U2
• Exclusive (play), a 1989 play by Jeffrey Archer

Other uses

• In marketing, "exclusive" can refer to products that are only available from select distributors or retailers, and have never been released before, or only at a particular event.
• In tax rates, "exclusive" can refer to a tax system that does not include taxes owed as part of the base.
• In dating, "exclusive" refers to the activity of dating one person, sometimes referred to as "going steady" or "seeing how things go."

See also

• Inclusive

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