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Exclusive (foaled 8 April 1995) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare . As a juvenile, she won a strongly-contested race on her debut and the finished third in the Fillies' Mile . As a three-year-old in 1998 she finished third in the classic ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB mutually ▪ The categories are neither intended to be mutually exclusive nor all-embracing. ▪ Gessler maintains that fear and heat of passion are not mutually exclusive defenses. ▪ Both questions have to receive ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "so as to exclude;" 1560s, "that excludes," from Medieval Latin exclusivus , from exclus- , past participle stem of excludere (see exclude ). Of monopolies, rights, franchises, etc., from 1760s; of social circles, clubs, etc., "unwilling to admit ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. not divided or shared with others; "they have exclusive use of the machine"; "sole rights of publication" [syn: sole(a) ] excluding much or all; especially all but a particular group or minority; "exclusive clubs"; "an exclusive restaurants and shops" ...
Usage examples of exclusive.
Ranging the continent literally from Georgia to Maine, with all his weaknesses and indiscretions, and with his incomparable eloquence, welcomed by every sect, yet refusing an exclusive allegiance to any, Whitefield exercised a true apostolate, bearing daily the care of all the churches, and becoming a messenger of mutual fellowship not only between the ends of the continent, but between the Christians of two hemispheres.
Whilst they acknowledged the charms of the Greek, they asserted the dignity of the Latin tongue, and the exclusive use of the latter was inflexibly maintained in the administration of civil as well as military government.
Yet even in their fallen state, the Jews, still asserting their lofty and exclusive privileges, shunned, instead of courting, the society of strangers.
He granted an exclusive privilege to the English for furnishing the Spanish West Indies with negroes, according to the assiento contract.
His stories soon attracted general attention and were warmly welcomed by many critics but generally censured for an exclusive exuberance and elaboration of style.
This was only when she was in the presence of her betters and as practice for a time to come when, she told herself, she would run the most exclusive brothel in London Town.
Why, from the very moment an American started building his or her Miami Moorish house in the exclusive colony which the Meskins disparagingly called Disneylandia, the poor, helpless, despised retiree could expect to be gulled, bilked, hoodwinked and price-gouged by every Meskin contractor, carpenter, plumber, etc.
But there was something open-ended in its plangency, just as there had been something exclusive about the ideal order that the books had passively hinted at, the order of words.
Not that Portia thought very much of this accredited warrant of a sole and exclusive passion.
Shan States, but though they are often the preponderating, they are not the exclusive population.
We have attempted no propagandism and acknowledged no revolution, but we have left to every nation the exclusive conduct and management of its own affairs.
We must bear in mind, however sadly, that psychopathology is no longer the exclusive preserve of the degenerate and perverse.
The king likewise recommends it to the commissioners to inquire and examine, whether a greater freedom of trade, and an exemption from the restraint of exclusive companies, would not be beneficial.
Von Krankin and I have exclusive responsibility for recruitment, training and ops.
Estelle knew perfectly well that if she were to dial the number of the apartment in the exclusive block that her mother had persuaded Ethian to buy the previous year, she would be unlikely to get a response from anything other than the an n swering machine and that even if she did leave her a message, her mother would probably not bother to ring back.