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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
exclusion
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
exclusion zone
▪ the military exclusion zone
social exclusion
▪ efforts to combat poverty and social exclusion
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
general
▪ A general exclusion clause which excludes liability altogether is thus very unlikely to be reasonable under s 3.
▪ The effect of the six weeks time limit will be considered within the general context of exclusion of remedies.
social
▪ They have all suffered grievously: shame, stigma and extreme social exclusion.
▪ However, when the left won office it was faced with the challenge of high levels of social exclusion and polarisation.
▪ Conceiving citizenship is this manner allows for a clearer understanding of the complexities of contemporary forms of social inclusion and exclusion.
▪ With this reduction of social activities came a sense of social exclusion.
▪ The social arena: housing policy as a response to problems of poverty and social exclusion.
▪ So the decline continued until parts of our cities were ghettos of deprivation, unemployment, poor housing and social exclusion.
total
▪ The pattern is certainly not one of total closure or exclusion.
▪ The evidence is not good enough to support any one of these interpretations to the total exclusion of either of the others.
▪ For example, there may be good grounds for the total exclusion of the public from some nature reserves.
■ NOUN
air
▪ In fact, there is no provision for air exclusion zones in Resolution 688.
clause
▪ A general exclusion clause which excludes liability altogether is thus very unlikely to be reasonable under s 3.
▪ Having regard to future possibilities as well as present realities, an exclusion clause would be indispensable in the new system.
▪ The Court of Appeal held that the oral statement overrode the exclusion clause which therefore did not form part of the contract.
▪ The nature of the contract, contractual and tortious liabilities and the use of exclusion clauses will be considered.
▪ The exclusion clause was of no effect for this breach of an express term.
▪ Chapter 10 deals with the position where one of the terms is an exclusion clause.
▪ An important preliminary point is that the dividing line between an exclusion clause and a disclosure clause may be thin.
▪ For all practical purposes a specific exclusion clause which is rendered unenforceable under these circumstances can be regarded as void.
principle
▪ A white dwarf is supported by the exclusion principle repulsion between the electrons in its matter.
▪ Without the exclusion principle, matter would collapse in on itself!
▪ If the world had been created without the exclusion principle, quarks would not form separate, well-defined protons and neutrons.
▪ Given the inapplicability of the exclusion principle, there is no economic incentive for private enterprises to supply lighthouses.
▪ These stars would be supported by the exclusion principle repulsion between neutrons and protons, rather than between electrons.
▪ Explain the significance of the exclusion principle.
▪ From this it follows that they satisfy the exclusion principle.
▪ The interactions are represented by integer-spin fields that do not obey the Pauli exclusion principle.
zone
▪ The Braer was outside a ten mile exclusion zone when its engines failed.
▪ Morris Thomas, 61, runs an old people's home deep in the exclusion zone.
▪ Within two hours officials had set up a five-mile exclusion zone round Burdon Farm.
▪ In thirty minutes he substantially re-established his parliamentary position and announced a 200-mile naval exclusion zone around the Falklands.
▪ The Government said that strictly controlled licences would be awarded to farms outside the foot and mouth exclusion zones.
▪ A six-mile exclusion zone was ordered around the ship while a tug towed the casualty further offshore.
▪ Dozens of towns and villages were abandoned as 135,000 people and 35,000 cattle left the exclusion zone.
▪ The exclusion zone approved by the Home Secretary bans any procession or convoy of vehicles in the area.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The resolution ended the exclusion of professional athletes from the Olympics.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But exclusion of the mystical did not advance knowledge very far.
▪ But today, the Oxford University Sports Director was furious at her exclusion.
▪ In unmistakable terms the Act prohibits the exclusion of-individuals from federally funded programs because of their race.
▪ The interactions are represented by integer-spin fields that do not obey the Pauli exclusion principle.
▪ The position now depends on whether the period of exclusion which has been ordered is permanent, indefinite or fixed term.
▪ This position was reaffirmed by the exclusion of employment-related matters from the Unionlaw scheme launched in 1989.
▪ Unfortunately, psychologists have become obsessed about individual differences to the exclusion of the universal.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Exclusion

Exclusion \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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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
exclusion

c.1400, from Latin exclusionem (nominative exclusio) "a shutting out," noun of action from past participle stem of excludere "keep out, shut out" (see exclude).

Wiktionary
exclusion

n. The act of exclude or shutting out; removal from consideration or taking part. (from 17th c.)

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WordNet
exclusion

  1. n. the state of being excluded [ant: inclusion]

  2. the state of being excommunicated [syn: excommunication, censure]

  3. a deliberate act of omission; "with the exception of the children, everyone was told the news" [syn: exception, elision]

  4. the act of forcing out someone or something; "the ejection of troublemakers by the police"; "the child's expulsion from school" [syn: ejection, expulsion, riddance]

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Wikipedia
Exclusion

Exclusion may refer to:

  • Expulsion (academia), exclusion from school or college
  • Social exclusion, personal exclusion, as an outcast
  • Exclusion Bill, 17th century attempt to ensure a Protestant succession in England
  • Diagnosis of exclusion, medical diagnosis by elimination
  • Exclusionary rule, legal principle in the United States
  • exclusion zone, a geographic area in which some sanctioning authority prohibits specific activities
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Usage examples of "exclusion".

The principle, applicable to both federal and State courts, that the Court first assuming jurisdiction over property may maintain and exercise that jurisdiction to the exclusion of the other, was held not to be confined to cases where the property has actually been seized under judicial process, but applies as well to suits brought for marshalling assets, administering trusts, or liquidating estates and to suits of a similar nature, where to give effect to its jurisdiction the Court must control the property.

In 1961 certain obscure events associated with religiosity resulted in the overthrow of one culture, the establishment of a much wider series of cultures holding similar tenets, and the exclusion of yet other groups which resulted in a polarization among this most intelligent species, one which has yet to be fully explained.

Germany possessed a deadly, delusional logic--the logic inherent in theories of scapegoating, racial exclusion, race purity, and cultural pollution.

He is studying Summoning Power and Ritual to the exclusion of all else.

Geza Vermes states explicitly that it was Onias IV who founded the Egyptian temple, thus maintaining the exclusion of this temple from serious academic consideration.

Maupassant takes rank among the leaders, altho the sphere in which he observed had its marked limitations and its obvious exclusions.

Isle of Crete, his exclusion from the throne was compensated by the royal title and the provinces beyond the Hellespont.

Was I, alone of all mankind, to be doomed to perpetual exclusion from the society which, as it seemed to me, was all that rendered existence worth the trouble and fatigue of slavery to the vulgar need of supplying the waste of the system and working at the task of respiration like the daughters of Danaus,--toiling day and night as the worn-out sailor labors at the pump of his sinking vessel?

He asked her if she was thinking of the exclusion of women from ritual dances and she denied this with such vehemence that it was clear the question had caught her on the raw.

As for what they call us, they do use human, of course, but they have also taken to using the new Demosthenian Hierarchy of Exclusion.

Ordered: By virtue of the authority vested by act of Congress, the President takes military possession of all the railroads in the United States from and after this date until further order, and directs that the respective railroad companies, their officers and servants, shall hold themselves in readiness for the transportation of such troops and munitions of war as may be ordered by the military authorities, to the exclusion of all other business.

Apostles, which divides liturgical exclusion from social exclusion and describes the penance sinners must do to be brought back within the church.

We do not, however, prescribe these extracts to the exclusion of other well tested remedial agents, but do regard them, especially in the more confirmed and obstinate cases, as among our most positive curative agents.

Millington swore to get Filmer somehow, anyhow, in the future, and had made it into a personal vendetta, the pursuit of this one villain filling his mind to the exclusion of nearly everything else.

So long as Udara was the only state in the High Jagirs with a resident representative of Barents, the Bashir could presumably count on Udaran interests being represented in Valentin to the exclusion of those of the conquered territories.