Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
adv. (context focus English) to the exclusion of anything or anyone else; solely or entirely
WordNet
adv. without any others being included or involved; "was entirely to blame"; "a school devoted entirely to the needs of problem children"; "he works for Mr. Smith exclusively"; "did it solely for money"; "the burden of proof rests on the prosecution alone"; "a privilege granted only to him" [syn: entirely, solely, alone, only]
Usage examples of "exclusively".
Hunting, especially the highly cooperative form of hunting in three dimensions which the Affront had evolved, required and encouraged intelligence, and it was generally - though not exclusively - intelligence that took a species into space.
In the East, where the thought of the apostolical succession of the bishops never received such pronounced expression as in Rome it was just this latter element that was almost exclusively emphasised from the end of the 3rd century.
United States is exclusively a case of statutory construction, it is significant from a constitutional point of view in that its reasoning is contrary to that of earlier cases narrowly construing the act of 1831 and asserting broad inherent powers of courts to punish contempts independently of and contrary to Congressional regulation of this power.
On this occasion the two other ladies were at home and Bernard was not exclusively indebted to Miss Evers for entertainment.
And Sutter, who understood every nuance of what he was doing, hated him the more for it but still did not suspect that he had been given a message which had originated exclusively in the brain of Lester Bray, himself.
He wished to establish 6000 bursaries, to be paid by Government, and to be exclusively at his disposal, so that thus possessing the monopoly of education, he could have parcelled it out only to the children of those who were blindly devoted to him.
In this capacity, the motion of the mouth was rarely seen by human beings, since the Diaboli much preferred to eat in the company of their own kind, exclusively.
The facts are that in 1997, Bob Humpty voted to allow special interests in the nursing-home industry to increase their profits by feeding senior citizens a diet consisting exclusively of hamster-cage waste.
Valenciennes, there is hardly a single group of fishes confined exclusively to fresh water, so that we may imagine that a marine member of a fresh-water group might travel far along the shores of the sea, and subsequently become modified and adapted to the fresh waters of a distant land.
And it is exclusively of him, this Filipino proper, that the next chapters will speak, leaving both Igorot and Moro for later thought.
I have ventured to say the above, because during the remainder of my book I shall be occupied almost exclusively with Italy, and wish to make it clear that my Italian rambles are taken not because I prefer Italy to England, but as by way of parergon, or by-work, as every man should have both his profession and his hobby.
He recognizes the Berlioz exclusively from the physiognomic description given in the literature.
In public the wish for further democratisation was presented exclusively as reform within the socialist system, but some people obviously believed that this should lead to the development of a pluralistic liberal democracy.
Paying lip service to conservation and environmental concerns, the report focused almost exclusively on deregulation, giant subsidies, and tax breaks that would benefit virtually every major polluter in the energy industry.
There the resemblance to a typical Anglo-Indian house finished because Prentice had furnished exclusively with Indian furniture.