Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act or practice of excluding.
- n. The condition or fact of being excluded.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of excluding or shutting out; a debarring; non-admission.
- n. Non-inclusion or non-reception; exception.
- n. In logic, the relation of two terms each of which is totally denied of the other. Thus, animal and plant stand to each other in a relation of exclusion, provided it is true that no animal is a plant.
- n. The act of thrusting out or expelling; ejection; extrusion.
- n. That which is emitted or thrown out; excretion.
- n. A method in the theory of numbers invented by Frenicle de Bessy, and now forgotten.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of excluding, or of shutting out, whether by thrusting out or by preventing admission; a debarring; rejection; prohibition; the state of being excluded.
- n. (Physiol.) The act of expelling or ejecting a fetus or an egg from the womb.
- n. Thing emitted.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a deliberate act of omission
- n. the state of being excommunicated
- n. the state of being excluded
- n. the act of forcing out someone or something
Etymologies
- From Latin exclusionem, from excludere. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English exclusioun, from Latin exclūsiō, exclūsiōn-, from exclūsus, past participle of exclūdere, to shut; see exclude. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Note 84: Pat McCarthy, a registered nurse and a certified schoolteacher, recalls her exclusion from the midwifery crew and from teaching at The Farm school with some resentment.”
Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583
“Sports Minister Ngconde Balfour has criticised certain sports federations for what he calls their exclusion of blacks from management positions.”
“Where systematic discrimination excludes minorities from vital governmental departments (public safety, education), the exclusion is aimed at and felt by the affected black or Hispanic community.”
“(Soundbite of laughter) MARTIN: ... that may have been related to his earlier kind of exclusion from the mainstream?”
“I vividly recall my sense of exclusion from the "adult table" after having had one or two stories published, but before being able to sell regularly.”
TOC: The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF edited by Mike Ashley
“If apparent bias in reporting were the criteria for exclusion from the pool then very few MSM would make it in.”
“Outside the debate in suburban Elmhurst, Green Party candidate Rich Whitney and supporters gathered to protest his exclusion from the debate.”
“Anyone who voted against the PEC exclusion is pro-unborn and anti-born.”
“Current social systems theory explains that the action that gives rise to radicalism and terroristic violence stems from exclusion from the discursive system.”
“Of course the same would apply to exclusions of, for instance, pro-atheism bus advertising or pro-Islam bus advertising, if the exclusion is based on the supposed offensiveness of the viewpoint expressed by the ad.”
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EU Buzz - ALL words and expressions
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collocation constituentsabsorption capacity, absorption rate, acceding country, accession candidate, accession countries, accession country, accession criteria, accession cycle, accession negotia..., accession partner..., accession priorities, accession treaty and 2650 more...
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abandon, abandonment, abnormally, abstract, abstraction, abstractly, abstracts, academia, academic, academically, academics, academies and 3119 more...
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concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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sporadic, peculiar, treacherous, niche, ambiance, ruckus, notion, voyeurism, exclusion, proselytize, opaque, perverse and 12 more...
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brain waste, apprenticeship, complex needs, employability, EPSCO Council, non-formal education, private employmen..., separate budget a..., social exclusion, tackle youth unem..., traineeship, vocational education and 18 more...
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Words that, at the I put them here, weren't being listed by anyone else in the entire universe.
vagus, neoplanet, fadiddy, cazique, catastroika, circumciser, commonplace book, danseuse, ecopod, dichloroacetate, underlay, overlay and 374 more...
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able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Studying Book
scarcity, characterized, respectively, drought, starvation, quotas, eliminate, exclusion, settler, persecution, occupy, decline and 4 more...
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influx / movement
infusion, intromission, introduction, influence, power, inflow, influx, accession, concourse, accumulation, outlay, emigration and 28 more...
Tweets
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madmouth it's so much creepier than 'expulsion' in this case. the long use of 'expel' within the school system has dulled its punch, whereas exclusion reads like a deliberate emotional decision to ostracize (we musn't exclude people; that's just mean); definitely not a mere punishment. Jun 24, 2009
bilby That was my feeling exactly ... exclusion is such a sanitised word to use in this context. Jun 24, 2009
madmouth is 'expel' now politically incorrect, or is 'exclude' a British thing? Jun 24, 2009
bilby "In the report, The Exclusion From School of Children Aged Four To Seven, Ofsted said most children 'responded well to the school's expectations', but a few found this difficult. Bad behaviour included biting other children, persistent refusal to follow instructions, swearing, running away from staff or kicking or hitting them, climbing over the school fence and throwing chairs."
- Schools 'need not expel under-7s', bbc.co.uk, 23 June 2009. Jun 24, 2009