Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Exclusive; excluding; able to exclude.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Able to exclude; excluding; serving to exclude.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective having the power or the function of excluding.
  • adjective tending to exclude.

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Examples

  • Instead, it's whether or not the neutral and generally applicable requirement that any RSO not act in an exclusory fashion is permissible.

    WaPo 'On Faith': Religious Freedom to Exclude 2010

  • For instance, why would Elizabeth go and join an exclusory cult when she always said she wanted to do so and so when she was older.

    New Statesman 2009

  • For instance, why would Elizabeth go and join an exclusory cult when she always said she wanted to do so and so when she was older.

    New Statesman 2009

  • Not a good place to be, Peter, at least, not at a time that the electorate is beginning to look at any exclusory or religious, political or socially elitist positions as responsible for the chaos in American life right now.

    Pam's House Blend - Front Page MauraHennessey 2008

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