excludeverb [ T ]
uk/ɪkˈskluːd/us/ɪkˈskluːd/C1 to prevent someone or something from entering a place or taking part in an activity:
Women are still excluded from the club.
Microbes must, as far as possible, be excluded from the room during an operation.
Tom has been excluded from school (= he is not allowed to go to school) for bad behaviour.
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include
C1 to intentionally not include something:
The price excludes local taxes.
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include
to decide that something is not true or possible:
We can't exclude the possibility that he is dead.
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- It wasn't my intention to exclude her from the list - I just forgot her.
- Couples who are childless can feel excluded from the rest of society.
- The net weight of something excludes the weight of the material that it is packed in.
- At that time, women were excluded from the club.
- People who have to, or choose to, exclude certain foods from their diet must be particularly careful about eating healthy balanced meals.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Excluding
- acid-free
- alienate
- apart
- bar
- barring
- cut
- discount
- excluding
- exclusion
- exclusive
- exclusively
- freeze sb out
- hold
- leave sb out in the cold idiom
- out of it idiom
- outside
- present
- present company excepted idiom
- send
- send sb to Coventry idiom
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You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:
Not going to school
Concluding and deducing
True, real, false, and unreal