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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
including
preposition
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Including weekends, there are only twelve more shopping days until Christmas.
▪ Not including cassettes, he has eight thousand albums in his collection.
▪ There'll be eighteen people at the party, including you and me.
▪ There's about twenty of us, including the instructors.
▪ They stole everything in my purse, including my credit cards.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Including

Include \In*clude"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Included; p. pr. & vb. n. Including.] [L. includere, inclusum; pref. in- in + claudere to shut. See Close, and cf. Enclose.]

  1. To confine within; to hold; to contain; to shut up; to inclose; as, the shell of a nut includes the kernel; a pearl is included in a shell.

  2. To comprehend or comprise, as a genus the species, the whole a part, an argument or reason the inference; to contain; to embrace; as, this volume of Shakespeare includes his sonnets; he was included in the invitation to the family; to and including page twenty-five.

    The whole included race, his purposed prey.
    --Milton.

    The loss of such a lord includes all harm.
    --Shak.

  3. To conclude; to end; to terminate. [Obs.]

    Come, let us go; we will include all jars With triumphs, mirth, and rare solemnity.
    --Shak.

    Syn: To contain; inclose; comprise; comprehend; embrace; involve.

Wiktionary
including

prep. such as, among which; (non-gloss definition: introducing one or more parts of the group or topic just mentioned.) vb. (present participle of include English)

Usage examples of "including".

Those attempts led to new violent confrontations between the government and supporters of the FIS, including the jailing of a prominent FIS leader, Abbasi Madani.

The Marquis de Nesmond, with a powerful squadron of fifteen ships, including some of the best in the royal navy, sailed for Newfoundland, with orders to defeat an English squadron supposed to be there, and then to proceed to the mouth of the Penobscot, where he was to be joined by the Abenaki warriors and fifteen hundred troops from Canada.

The ablest lawyers in the Senate, in general, pressed the claim of the insurance companies to the balance of the fund, including Mr.

Already Adams was serving on twenty-three committees, and that same week was assigned to three more, including an all-important new Continental Board of War and Ordnance, of which he was to be the president.

John Luzac of Leyden, a lawyer, scholar, and editor, published in his Gazette de Leyde a steady variety of material supplied by Adams, including the first European translation of the new Massachusetts Constitution, which was to have an important effect in the Netherlands.

Acutely sensitive to all that Vergennes had done to destroy his reputation with Congress, including enlisting Franklin to help make the case against him, Adams was no more eager to see Vergennes than he had been to see Franklin.

When word reached London that some states, including Massachusetts, had passed laws against compliance with the treaty, Adams was appalled.

The day following the inauguration, however, when President Adams asked others, including Washington, for their opinion on sending Madison to Paris, he heard only stiff objections.

More common was the opinion that a formal declaration of war could not come too soon, a view most strongly held by those nearest Adams, including his wife.

For weeks Adams had been exercising his presidential prerogative to fill government positions of all kinds, including some for friends and needy relatives.

When the Vice President returned to Washington to preside over the Senate, he was looked upon by many, including young Senator Adams, as no better than a murderer.

Letters of condolence arrived for Adams, including one from Jefferson, who had himself been gravely ill.

In preparation for an earlier, much smaller version of the scene, Trumbull had painted studies from life of thirty-six of the signers, including Adams, whom Trumbull sketched in London.

But even while the CIA hawks were plotting their campaign of sabotage, a group of Kennedy administration doves, including UN Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, were working on another track.

At this point the JTTF had grown to more than forty members, including agents from the Secret Service, Treasury, INS, DEA, and the New York State Police, along with NYPD detectives like Lou Napoli.