excluded

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 
“
We need not suppose that when power resides in an exclusive class, that class will knowingly and deliberately sacrifice the other classes to themselves: it suffices that, in the absence of its natural defenders, the interest of the excluded is always in danger of being overlooked; and, when looked at, is seen with very different eyes from those of the persons whom it directly concerns.

View all »
Definitions (14)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (3)

  1. transitive verb To prevent from entering; keep out; bar: a jar sealed to exclude outside air; an immigration policy that excludes undesirables.
  2. transitive verb To prevent from being included, considered, or accepted; reject: The court excluded the improperly obtained evidence.
  3. transitive verb To put out; expel.

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (5)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (1)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (5)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

  • It seems to me that this kind of parochialism is akin to the weird dynamic by which Carl Sagan was excluded from the National Academy. —  RealClimate
  • Broad thought that the general opinion that Trujillo had "missed the main game" by allowing Telstra to be excluded from the National Broadband Network was false. —  ZDNET.com.au
  • "At present, as more items are excluded from the National Health Insurance, such program would help fill the gap," Liang Cheng-te, executive vice president of the Taiwan Insurance Institute, who was commissioned by the FSC to study the proposal, said March 31 during a telephone interview.
  • Not that long ago, anyone who was properly labeled as a socialist was appropriately excluded from the American economic debate-virtually no one, including myself, has any interest in nationalizing the entire private sector. —  Hullabaloo
  • RosUkrEnergo has been excluded from the Russian-Ukrainian gas trade, losing profits of at least $1 billion a year. —  AGORAVOX - The Citizen Media
More examples »
 

Tags

excluded hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 16 times.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »

If you'd like to prod us on getting a pronunciation for this word, sign in (or sign up) and let us know.

Charts
frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word a few times a week.

Recently looked up

cru · schtick · noisily · cradling · herewith

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

britney · bunda · settii · aithníonn ciaróg ciaróg eile · an sionnach i gcraiceann na caorach