exclusive

English

Etymology

From Latin exclūsīvus, from excludere (“to shut out, exclude”), from ex- (“out”) + variant form of verb claudere (“to close, shut”).

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪkˈsklu.sɪv/, /ɪkˈsklu.zɪv/

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• Hyphenation: ex‧clu‧sive

Adjective

exclusive (comparative more exclusive, superlative most exclusive)

1. (literally) Excluding items or members that do not meet certain conditions.
2. (figuratively) 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.

   Exclusive clubs tend to serve exclusive brands of food and drinks, in the same exorbitant price range, such as the 'finest' French châteaux.

3. Exclusionary.
4. Whole, undivided, entire.

   The teacher's pet commands the teacher's exclusive attention.

5. (linguistics) Of or relating to the first-person plural pronoun when excluding the person being addressed.

   The pronoun in "We're going to a party later, but you aren't invited" is an exclusive "we".

6. (of two people in a romantic or sexual relationship) Having a romantic or sexual relationship with one another, to the exclusion of others.

   They decided to no longer be exclusive.

Antonyms

• inclusive
• non-exclusive

Derived terms

• exclusive disjunction
• exclusively
• exclusiveness
• exclusive-or
• exclusive or
• exclusive right
• exclusivity
• mutually exclusive
• timed exclusive

 

Related terms

English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *(s)kleh₂w-‎ (0 c, 62 e)

• excludent (discrimination)

Translations

excluding items or members that do not meet certain conditions

• Arabic: حَصْرِيّ m (ḥaṣriyy)
• Armenian: բացառիկ (hy) (bacʻaṙik)
• Asturian: esclusivu
• Belarusian: выклю́чны (be) (vykljúčny), эксклюзі́ўны (ekskljuzíŭny)
• Bulgarian: изключи́телен (bg) (izključítelen)
• Catalan: exclusiu (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 獨家／独家 (zh) (dújiā)

• Finnish: poissulkeva (fi), eksklusiivinen (fi)
• French: exclusif (fr)
• Galician: exclusivo (gl) m, exclusiva f
• German: ausschließlich (de)
• Greek: αποκλειστικός (el) (apokleistikós)
• Hungarian: kizárólagos (hu), egyedüli (hu)
• Indonesian: eksklusif (id)
• Italian: esclusivo (it), esclusorio
• Maori: aukati
• Polish: ekskluzywny (pl), wyłączny (pl)
• Portuguese: exclusivo (pt)
• Russian: исключи́тельный (ru) (isključítelʹnyj), эксклюзи́вный (ru) (ekskljuzívnyj)
• Spanish: exclusivo (es)
• Turkish: seçkin (tr)
• Ukrainian: ви́ключний (výključnyj), ексклюзи́вний (ekskljuzývnyj)

of high quality and/or renown

• Armenian: բացառիկ (hy) (bacʻaṙik)
• Bulgarian: отли́чен (bg) (otlíčen)
• Catalan: exclusiu (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: exclusief (nl)
• Finnish: eksklusiivinen (fi)
• French: exclusif (fr)
• Galician: exclusivo (gl) m, exclusiva f
• German: exklusiv (de)
• Hebrew: בִּלְעָדִי (he) m (bil'adí)
• Hungarian: luxus- (hu), exkluzív (hu), zárt körű (hu)
• Indonesian: eksklusif (id)
• Polish: ekskluzywny (pl) m
• Portuguese: exclusivo (pt) m
• Russian: эксклюзи́вный (ru) (ekskljuzívnyj), отли́чный (ru) (otlíčnyj)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

exclusionary — see exclusionary

whole, undivided, entire

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: yksinomainen (fi), jakamaton (fi)
• Hebrew: בִּלְעָדִי (he) m (bil'adí)
• Hungarian: teljes (hu), osztatlan (hu)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

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• French: ^{(please verify)} exclusif (fr)

Noun

exclusive (plural exclusives)

1. Information (or an artefact) that is granted or obtained exclusively.

   The editor agreed to keep a lid on a potentially disastrous political scoop in exchange for an exclusive of a happier nature.

2. A member of a group who excludes others from their society.
   • 1873, The Slang Dictionary, John Camden Hotten:

     The exclusives at the English Universities apply the term CAD to all non-members.

3. (grammar) A word or phrase that restricts something, such as only, solely, or simply.

Translations

information granted exclusively

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: exclusief(je) n
• Finnish: yksinoikeusjuttu
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: seçkin (tr)

Further reading

• “exclusive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “exclusive”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

French

Adjective

exclusive

1. feminine singular of exclusif

Latin

Adjective

exclūsīve

1. vocative masculine singular of exclūsīvus