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- Dictionaryex·clud·ing/ikˈsklo͞odiNG/
preposition
- 1. not taking someone or something into account; apart from; except: "you have eight more days, excluding Sundays"
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1. a. : to prevent or restrict the entrance of. b. : to bar from participation, consideration, or inclusion. 2. : to expel or bar especially from a place or position previously occupied. excluder noun. Synonyms. ban. bar. close out. count (out) debar. eliminate. except. freeze out. rule out. shut out. See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus.
to prevent someone or something from entering a place or taking part in an activity: be excluded fromWomen are still excluded from the club. Microbes must, as far as possible, be excluded from the room during an operation. UK Tom has been excluded from school (= he is not allowed to go to school) for bad behaviour. Compare. include. C1.
Excluding means not including or apart from something or someone. Learn how to use this preposition in different contexts and see translations in other languages.
Excluding is a preposition that means excepting or leaving out. See how to use it in sentences from various sources, such as The Daily Beast and Project Gutenberg.
verb. to keep out; prevent from entering. to reject or not consider; leave out. to expel forcibly; eject. to debar from school, either temporarily or permanently, as a form of punishment.
Learn the meaning of exclude, a verb that means to prevent or omit something or someone. See how to use exclude in different contexts, such as business, education and politics, with examples and translations.
Exclude means to leave out — like when the cool kids won't let you in on their game of four-square or the pizza guy leaves your neighborhood out from his delivery zone. Exclude comes to us from the Latin word excludere, which means "to shut."
