Exclusive vs Exclude - What's the difference?
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(literally) Excluding items or members that do not meet certain conditions.
(figuratively) Referring to a membership organisation, service or product: of high quality and/or reknown, for superior members only. A snobbish usage, suggesting that members who do not meet requirements, which may be financial, of celebrity, religion, skin colour etc., are excluded.
exclusionary
whole, undivided, entire
Information (or an artefact) that is granted or obtained exclusively.
(grammar) A word or phrase that restricts something, such as only'', ''solely'', or ''simply .
To bar (someone) from entering; to keep out.
To expel; to put out.
(legal, of evidence) To refuse to accept as valid.
(medicine) To eliminate from diagnostic consideration.
Exclude is a related term of exclusive.
As an adjective exclusive
is excluding items or members that do not meet certain conditions.As a noun exclusive
is information (or an artefact) that is granted or obtained exclusively.As a verb exclude is
to bar (someone) from entering; to keep out.exclusive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Exclusive''' clubs tend to serve ' exclusive brands of food and drinks, in the same exorbitant price range, such as the 'finest' French châteaux.
- ''The teacher's pet commands the teacher's exclusive attention.
Antonyms
* inclusive * non-exclusiveDerived terms
* exclusively * exclusiveness * exclusive or * exclusive right * exclusivity * mutually exclusiveNoun
(en noun)- ''The editor agreed to keep a lid on a potentially distastrous political scoop in exchange for an exclusive of a happier nature
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Verb
(exclud)- to exclude young animals from the womb or from eggs