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exclude

[ik-sklood]

verb (used with object), -clud·ed, -clud·ing.

to shut or keep out; prevent the entrance of.

to shut out from consideration, privilege, etc.: Employees and their relatives were excluded from participation in the contest.

to expel and keep out; thrust out; eject: He was excluded from the club for infractions of the rules.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin exclūdere to shut out, cut off, equivalent to ex- ex-¹ + -clūdere (combining form of claudere to close)

Related forms

ex·clud·er, noun

ex·clu·so·ry

[ik-skloo-suh-ree, -zuh-ree] , adjective

pre·ex·clude, verb (used with object), -clud·ed, -clud·ing.

un·ex·clud·ed, adjective

un·ex·clud·ing, adjective

Synonyms
1. bar, prohibit, except, omit, preclude. 3. reject.

Antonyms
1. include.

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It would be better if employers and agencies voluntarily agreed not to exclude unemployed applicants, but they haven't.

Consumption figures also exclude spending on residential housing.

Worse, quoted airfares exclude many items that now cost extra.

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It would be better if employers and agencies voluntarily agreed not to exclude unemployed applicants, but they haven't.

Consumption figures also exclude spending on residential housing.

Worse, quoted airfares exclude many items that now cost extra.

But if you had to boil down our fisheries failures to one root cause you could blame the inability to exclude users.

Cover vegetables with floating row covers to exclude leafhoppers.

Status differences did not exclude frank discussion.

Named-peril policies specify risks covered and exclude everything else.

Officials exclude its reporters from press conferences.

All are blocked with huge steel gates that allow bats to fly in and out but exclude unauthorized human visitors.

We must not exclude any clean energy source including nuclear.

Receiving the treatment could exclude me from future clinical trials.

Also, they may exclude the poor, or may concentrate on protecting one commodity at the expense of others.

The other thing they might do is exclude me from any kind of cultural activity.

Pot shot plays on the market mean zilch, thus, exclude them.

Many in the online world cherish freedom of speech and hesitate to exclude even the malign.

Point out that the general climate patterns exclude exceptions and variations such as elevation and marine influence.

The review groups were carefully vetted to exclude anyone with a possibly different view.

If scavengers will have access to your compost area, you should consider how well your composting unit will exclude them.

Nuclear power plants can not exclude nitrogen form their atmosphere.

To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exclude yourself from the true enjoyment of it.

In this regard one aspect of superconductors is their ability to exclude a magnetic field.

Research is a blessing and is necessary, but let us not exclude the other half.

Darwin deliberately decided to exclude the effect of external conditions.

Weather models are significantly more inaccurate because they are local and exclude important variables.

Otherwise you may need to set up your conditions to exclude the students who've already submitted work.

The new tests seem to exclude part of potential systematic effects that could have affected the original measurement.

The president has said hiring practices that exclude applicants who were not already employed should be outlawed.

There is no possible advantage to you in asking about it before, unless you are going to exclude them and not go to the interview.

Companies that co-operate may be allowed to exclude the salaries of expatriates, who are few but well-paid.

Rolaids was recently reformulated to exclude aluminum.

What she has in mind is a big tent, one that doesn't exclude fancy toys or snappy musical productions.

It said authors and publishers can exclude books from the program if they don't want their material included.

Conducting a background check does not necessarily mean that you automatically exclude anyone convicted of a felony.

Six years later, attempts to exclude independent candidates from local elections prompted student protests.

In short, conservation reserves that exclude tribal peoples suffer.

The hopping pattern may be adapted to exclude a portion of the frequencies that are used by interfering devices.

In critical national security situations, one should also not exclude a preventive nuclear strike against the aggressor.

The military cannot exclude from protection individuals who fail to pay their taxes.

But for all the fervour that these answers suggest, belief in a world religion does not exclude nostalgia for older ways.

When you exclude it from the system, you'll pay the price later.

It'd be too bad to create so much potential with this tool only to have it exclude some people with disabilities.

If the plan is to exclude the eurozone portion from this bail out then it could quickly become controversial in the.

Of course you would have to exclude vaccinated instances when comparing to other counties who have not the same vaccine care.

But the successes of one method in community building do not logically exclude other methods.

It does not exclude color of skin, nationality, and culture.

Even their sales of modern and contemporary art usually exclude anything that is less than five years old.

Anyone that tries to exclude various works or activities from being permitted to be considered art has.

The current exemption rules allow schools to exclude children who are not vaccinated during an outbreak of communicable disease.

Furthermore, you can exclude certain demographic profiles from taking the survey.

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Collins

World English Dictionary

exclude (ɪkˈskluːd)

—vb
1.	to keep out; prevent from entering
2.	to reject or not consider; leave out
3.	to expel forcibly; eject
4.	to debar from school, either temporarily or permanently, as a form of punishment

[C14: from Latin exclūdere, from claudere to shut]

ex'cludable

—*adj*

ex'cludible

—*adj*

ex'cluder

—n

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Word Origin & History

exclude

late 14c., from L. excludere "keep out, shut out, hinder," from ex- "out" + claudere "to close, shut" (see close (v.)). Related: Excluded; excluding.

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