preexclude, verb (used with object), preexcluded, preexcluding.
unexcluded, adjective
unexcluding, adjective
Synonyms
1. bar, prohibit, except, omit, preclude. 3. reject.
Antonyms
1. include.
Examples from the web for exclude
It would be better if employers and agencies voluntarily agreed not to exclude unemployed applicants, but they haven't.
Consumption figures also exclude spending on residential housing.
Worse, quoted airfares exclude many items that now cost extra.
But if you had to boil down our fisheries failures to one root cause you could blame the inability to exclude users.
Cover vegetables with floating row covers to exclude leafhoppers.
Status differences did not exclude frank discussion.
Named-peril policies specify risks covered and exclude everything else.
Officials exclude its reporters from press conferences.
We must not exclude any clean energy source including nuclear.
Receiving the treatment could exclude me from future clinical trials.
British Dictionary definitions for exclude
exclude
/ɪkˈskluːd/
verb (transitive)
1.
to keep out; prevent from entering
2.
to reject or not consider; leave out
3.
to expel forcibly; eject
4.
to debar from school, either temporarily or permanently, as a form of punishment
Derived Forms
excludable, excludible, adjective excluder, noun
Word Origin
C14: from Latin exclūdere, from claudere to shut
Word Origin and History for exclude
v.
mid-14c., from Latin excludere "keep out, shut out, hinder," from ex- "out" (see ex-) + claudere "to close, shut" (see close (v.)). Related: Excluded; excluding.