exclusive
Meaning
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- Excluding items or members that do not meet certain conditions.
- Referring to a membership organisation, service or product: of high quality and/or renown, for superior members only. A snobbish usage, suggesting that members who do not meet requirements, which may be financial, of social status, religion, skin colour etc., are excluded.
- Exclusionary.
- Whole, undivided, entire.
- Of or relating to the first-person plural pronoun when excluding the person being addressed.
- Having a romantic or sexual relationship with one another, to the exclusion of others.
Frequency
Hyphenated as
ex‧clu‧sive
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ɪkˈsklu.sɪv/
Etymology
From Latin exclūsīvus, from excludere (“to shut out, exclude”), from ex- (“out”) + variant form of verb claudere (“to close, shut”).
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