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exclusion

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ex·clu·sion  (k-sklzhn)
n.
1. The act or practice of excluding.
2. The condition or fact of being excluded.

[Middle English exclusioun, from Latin exclsi, exclsin-, from exclsus, past participle of excldere, to shut; see exclude.]

ex·clusion·ary (-zh-nr) adj.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.exclusionexclusion - the state of being excluded          
situation, state of affairs - the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time; "the present international situation is dangerous"; "wondered how such a state of affairs had come about"; "eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation"- Franklin D.Roosevelt
banishment, Coventry, ostracism - the state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent); "the association should get rid of its elderly members--not by euthanasia, of course, but by Coventry"
debarment - the state of being debarred (excluded from enjoying certain possessions or rights or practices)
inclusion - the state of being included
2.exclusionexclusion - the state of being excommunicated    
rejection - the state of being rejected
3.exclusion - a deliberate act of omission; "with the exception of the children, everyone was told the news"
omission - neglecting to do something; leaving out or passing over something
4.exclusionexclusion - the act of forcing out someone or something; "the ejection of troublemakers by the police"; "the child's expulsion from school"
defenestration - the act of throwing someone or something out of a window
banishment, proscription - rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone
deportation - the expulsion from a country of an undesirable alien
ostracism - the act of excluding someone from society by general consent
barring, blackball - the act of excluding someone by a negative vote or veto
ousting, ouster - the act of ejecting someone or forcing them out

exclusion
noun 2. elimination, exception, missing out, rejection, leaving out, omission, repudiation
Translations
exclusion [ɪkˈskluːʒən] nexclusión f;
to the exclusion of → con exclusión de
exclusion [ɪkˈskluːʒən] nexclusion f;
to the exclusion of → à l'exclusion de
exclusion [ɪksˈkluːʒən] exclude nAusschluss m;
to concentrate on sth to the exclusion of everything else exclude → sich ausschließlich auf etw dat konzentrieren
exclusion [ɪkˈskluːʒən] nesclusione f;
to the exclusion of → escludendo


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Month after month for the six years in which the "Editor's Study" continued in the keeping of its first occupant, its lesson was more or less stormily delivered, to the exclusion, for the greater part, of other prophecy, but it has not been found well to keep the tempestuous manner along with the fulminant matter in this volume.
He read without understanding half of it, read only to forget, if but for a moment, what he had too long been thinking of so painfully to the exclusion of all else.
"To the utter exclusion, I suppose," he remarked, "of me?
 
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