verb [VN]
1 ~ sth (from sth) to deliberately not include sth in what you are doing or considering:
The cost of borrowing has been excluded from the inflation figures. * Try excluding sugar and fat from your diet. * Buses run every hour, Sundays excluded.
OPPINCLUDE
2 ~ sb/sth (from sth) to prevent sb/sth from entering a place or taking part in sth:
Women are still excluded from some London clubs. * (BrE) Concern is growing over the number of children excluded from school (= forbidden to attend because of bad behaviour). * She felt excluded by the other girls (= they did not let her join in what they were doing).
3 to decide that sth is not possible:
We should not exclude the possibility of negotiation. * The police have excluded theft as a motive for the murder.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for exclude is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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