exclusive
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From Latin exclūsīvus < excludere (“‘to shut out, exclude’”) < ex- (“‘out’”) + variant form of verb claudere (“‘to close, shut’”).
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exclusive (comparative more exclusive, superlative most exclusive)
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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.
- Exclusive clubs tend to serve exclusive brands of food and drinks, in the same exorbitant price range, such as the 'finest' French châteaux
- exclusionary
- whole, undivided, entire
- The teacher's pet commands the teacher's exclusive attention
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Excluding items or members that do not meet certain conditions
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exclusionary — see exclusionary
of high quality and/or reknown
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exclusive (plural exclusives)
- Information (or an artefact) that is granted or obtained exclusively.
- 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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- Dutch: exclusief(je) n.
[edit] External links
- exclusive in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- exclusive in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
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exclusive f.
- Feminine of exclusif.
