Dictionary Definition
exclusive adj
1 not divided or shared with others; "they have
exclusive use of the machine"; "sole rights of publication" [syn:
sole(a)]
2 excluding much or all; especially all but a
particular group or minority; "exclusive clubs"; "an exclusive
restaurants and shops" [ant: inclusive]
3 not divided among or brought to bear on more
than one object or objective; "judging a contest with a single
eye"; "a single devotion to duty"; "undivided affection"; "gained
their exclusive attention" [syn: single(a),
undivided] n : a news
report that is reported first by one news organization; "he got a
scoop on the bribery of city officials" [syn: scoop]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Adjective
exclusive- Excluding items or members that do not meet certain conditions.
- Referring to a membership organisation or commercial product: of high quality, for superior members only. A snobbish usage. Implies, not necessarily truly, that members who do not meet requirements, which may be financial, of celebrity, religion, skin colour, etc., are excluded.
Antonyms
Translations
Excluding items or members that do not meet
certain conditions
- Finnish: pois sulkeva, eksklusiivinen
of high quality, for superior members only
- Finnish: eksklusiivinen
- ttbc Dutch: uitsluitend
- ttbc Dutch: exclusief
French
Adjective
- Form of feminine, exclusif
Extensive Definition
Exclusive may refer to:
- In journalism, exclusive can refer to information provided to or available from only one news outlet, such as an interview or photograph.
- In the description of any formally defined set, the rules by which an object may be defined as excluded from the set are referred to as rules of exclusion.
- In the description of a mathematical set, the term exclusive denotes that the endpoints of a range are not included within the set. For example, "the integers -2 to 2 exclusive" refers to the set ; the endpoints, -2 and 2, are excluded. The term is generally applied to discrete elements.
- Exclusive or, an operator in Boolean logic
- Exclusive we in linguistics refers to first-person non-singular pronouns that don't include the addressee, i.e. we excluding you
- Exclusive (album), the name of R&B singer Chris Brown's second album
- Exclusive (EP), an EP by U2
- Exclusive (play), a 1989 play by Jeffrey Archer
Other uses
- In marketing, "exclusive" can refer to products that are only available from select distributors or retailers, and have never been released before, or only at a particular event.
- In tax rates, "exclusive" can refer to a tax system that does not include taxes owed as part of the base.
- In dating, "exclusive" refers to the activity of dating one person, sometimes referred to as "going steady" or "seeing how things go."
See also
exclusive in Swedish: Exklusion
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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