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exclusive
/ɪkˈsklu.sɪv/
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What does exclusive mean?
adjective
- Excluding items or members that do not meet certain conditions.
- (figuratively) Referring to a membership organisation, service or product: of high quality and/or renown, for superior members only.
- A snobbish usage, suggesting that members who do not meet requirements, which may be financial, of social status, religion, skin colour etc., are excluded.
More meanings (7)
adjective
- Exclusionary.
- Whole, undivided, entire.
- Of or relating to the first-person plural pronoun when excluding the person being addressed.
- Having a romantic or sexual relationship with one another, to the exclusion of others.
noun
- Information (or an artefact) that is granted or obtained exclusively.
- A member of a group who excludes others from their society.
- A word or phrase that restricts something, such as only, solely, or simply.
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IPA pronunciation
/ɪkˈsklu.sɪv/
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Centralisation of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.
The absoluteness of possession pleased them, and they realized it as the first moment of their experience under their own exclusive roof-tree.
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Now this object would be entirely frustrated if one religious party were to have the exclusive power of deciding for the other.
This transcends both the efficiency which consists in supplying products to others and the culture which is an exclusive refinement and polish.
This plan, with the exclusive use of the best grades of steel, regardless of cost, makes possible a marked reduction in weight.