Meaning of EXCLUSION
| Pronunciation: | | ik'skloozhun
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- [n] the act of expelling someone
- [n] a deliberate act of omission; "with the exception of the children, everyone was told the news"
- [n] the state of being excluded
- [n] the state of being excommunicated
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| | Synonyms: | | censure, ejection, elision, exception, excommunication, expulsion, riddance |
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| | Antonyms: | | inclusion | | |
| | See Also: | | banishment, banishment, barring, blackball, Coventry, debarment, deportation, omission, ostracism, ostracism, ouster, ousting, proscription, rejection, situation, state of affairs | |
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| | Definition: | | Exclusion
Challenging the wisdom of recent efforts to allow open homosexuality in the military, a major in the U.S. Army argues that such a move would be prejudicial to good order and discipline. more details ... |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Ex*clu"sion\, n. [L. exclusio: cf. F. exclusion. See
{Exclude}.]
1. The act of excluding, or of shutting out, whether by
thrusting out or by preventing admission; a debarring;
rejection; prohibition; the state of being excluded.
His sad exclusion from the doors of bliss. --Milton.
The exclusion of the duke from the crown of England
and Ireland. --Hume.
2. (Physiol.) The act of expelling or ejecting a fetus or an
egg from the womb.
3. Thing emitted. --Sir T. Browne.
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