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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of precluding, or the state of being precluded, in any sense of that word.

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

  • noun The act of precluding, or the state of being precluded; a shutting out.

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

  • noun countable The act of precluding
  • noun uncountable The condition of being precluded

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the act of preventing something by anticipating and disposing of it effectively

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