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ex
1[ eks ]
preposition
- Finance. without, not including, or without the right to have:
ex interest; ex rights.
- Commerce. free of charges to the purchaser until the time of removal from a specified place or thing:
ex ship; ex warehouse; ex elevator.
- (in U.S. colleges and universities) from, but not graduated with, the class of:
ex '47.
ex-
2- a prefix meaning “out of,” “from,” and hence “utterly,” “thoroughly,” and sometimes meaning “not” or “without” or indicating a former title, status, etc.; freely used as an English formative: exstipulate; exterritorial; ex-president (former president); ex-member; ex-wife .
ex
3[ eks ]
noun
- a former spouse or a former partner in a long-term romantic relationship; ex-wife, ex-husband, or ex-lover.
ex-
4- variant of exo-.
ex
5[ eks ]
noun
- the letter X, x.
ex-
6- a prefix identical in meaning with ex- 1, occurring before vowels in words of Greek origin: exarch; exegesis .
ex
7[ eks ]
adjective
EX
8abbreviation for
- Biology, Ecology. extinct ( def 2 ).
ex.
9abbreviation for
- examination.
- examined.
- example.
- except.
- exception.
- exchange.
- excursion.
- executed.
- executive.
- express.
- extra.
Ex.
10abbreviation for
- Exodus.
ex
1/ ɛks /
preposition
- finance not participating in; excluding; without
ex dividend
ex rights
ex bonus
- commerce without charge to the buyer until removed from
ex quay
ex ship
ex works
ex
2/ ɛks /
noun
- informal.(a person's) former wife, husband, etc
- See examinationshort for examination
ex-
3prefix
- out of; outside of; from
exclosure
exurbia
- former
ex-wife
Ex.
4abbreviation for
- Exodus
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Example Sentences
However, legal issues are only one of the things standing between an ex-prisoner and a job.
But almost to the man, the first thing every ex-con tells me is how hard it is to find work.
For Randy, a 50-year-old ex-Mormon gay man, this cure was a particularly bitter pill to swallow.
EURO was founded by David Duke, the ex-Klansman who ran for Louisiana governor in 1991.
According to the friend, Brinsley rang his ex-girlfriend, an Air Force reservist named Shaneka Thompson, to no avail.
The expatriated ex-rebels became alarmed by the non-receipt of the indemnity instalment and the news from their homes.
Ea & hreticorum repulit iniquitatem, & Nostros in nauim non iam vt hospites, sed vt magna ex parte Dominos, potentsq imposuit.
Ex quibus apparet, qum multa omnis generis perferenda fuerint.
Seqvitvr iam ex initio propositis tertium, nimirum vt exponatur, quonam tand loco rem Christianam his in locis offenderimus.
He evinced the opposite of the temper usually ascribed to the “Shepherd-boy” —a birth-date by Ex.
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