exclude Definition
ex·clude (eks klo̵̅o̅d′, iks-)
transitive verb -·clud′ed, -·clud′·ing
- to refuse to admit, consider, include, etc.; shut out; keep from entering, happening, or being; reject; bar
- to put out; force out; expel
Etymology: ME excluden < L excludere < ex-, out + claudere, close
exclude Related Forms
exclude Synonyms
exclude
v.
To bar
shut out, keep out, reject, ban, debar, eliminate, except, omit, prohibit, disallow, rule out, lock out, shut the door on; see also bar 1, 2.To expel
banish, suspend, put out, force out, disbar, eject, throw out; see also dismiss 1.
exclude implies a keeping out or prohibiting of that which is not yet in to exclude someone from membership; debar connotes the existence of some barrier, as legal authority or force, which excludes someone from a privilege, right, etc. to debar certain groups from voting; disbar refers only to depriving a lawyer of the right to practice law; eliminate implies the removal of that which is already in, usually connoting its undesirability or irrelevance to eliminate waste products, to eliminate fraud; suspend refers to the removal, usually temporary, of someone from some organization, institution, etc., as for the infraction of some rule to suspend a student from school
exclude Usage Examples
Object
- VAT: Prices correct at time of press, prices subject to change without notice, prices exclude VAT.
- liability: Excluded liability for delay in delivering goods in the event of strikes.
- crown: Dimensions are width is 41 mm excluding crown, 43 mm including crown, 48 mm lug to lug and 12 mm thick.
- possibility: But poetry has been so defined in the public mind as usually to exclude the possibility of social conflicts appearing.
- pupil: They will be allowed to exclude pupils who are disrupting the education of the majority of pupils.
- bibliography: These limits include all notes, appendices, and any source material being edited, but exclude the bibliography.
Noun phrase with adjective complement
such: This clearly excludes tasks such as performances and presentations, but is required for all formal written examinations.
Adjective complement
due: The post immigrants excluded due to what steps it.
Modifying Another Word
- socially: Focus on the socially excluded - either economic or gender exclusion.
- expressly: All liability of Global internet BV howsoever arising for inaccuracies or errors is expressly excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law.
- hereby: DSVR hereby excludes all liability of any kind for the transmission or reception of information of whatever nature.
- permanently: Can a permanently excluded young person go to another school?
- specifically: Gifts of food, drink, tobacco or vouchers are specifically excluded.
- explicitly: The only occupation explicitly excluded from the DDA is the Armed Forces.
Preposition: from
- patentability: However, the system was still considered to be a mathematical method and therefore excluded from patentability.
- scope: Batteries of the button type or those composed of elements of the button type are excluded from the scope of the Directive.
- definition: Food aid is also excluded from the definition of tied aid.
- decision-making: The continued focus upon risk means that there is a danger that people so defined will be excluded from decision-making about their lives.
- school: Where parents can't come in to help move a child, the child may be excluded from school.
- membership: Low income membership It is our policy that no-one should be excluded from membership on the grounds of cost.
Browse dictionary entries near exclude
- ‹ exclosure
- ‹ exclave
- ‹ exclamatory
- ‹ exclamation
- ‹ exclaim
- ‹ excl
- ‹ excitor
- ‹ exciton
- ‹ exciting
- ‹ exciter

