adj.
- excluding or not admitting other things.
▸unable to exist or be true if something else exists or is true:
mutually exclusive options.
▸(of terms) excluding all but what is specified.
- restricted to the person, group, or area concerned.
▸not published or broadcast elsewhere.
- high-class and expensive; select.
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(exclusive of)
not including.
n.
an exclusive story or broadcast.
Derivative
- exclusively adv.
- exclusiveness n.
- exclusivity n.
Etymology
C15: from med. L. exclusivus, from L. excludere (see exclude).