excludeex‧clude /ɪkˈskluːd/ ●●○ W3 AWL verb [transitive] 
a special diet that excludes dairy products The judges decided to exclude evidence which had been unfairly obtained.exclude something from something Some of the data was specifically excluded from the report.RegisterIn everyday English, people usually say leave something or someone out rather than exclude something or someone:· Some information was left out of the report.· We didn’t mean to leave you out.2to not allow someone to take part in something or not allow them to enter a place, especially in a way that seems wrong or unfair OPP include: a mainstream exhibition that excluded women artistsexclude somebody from (doing) something The press had been deliberately excluded from the event. Sarah heard the other girls talking and laughing and felt excluded.3British English to officially make a child leave their school because of their bad behaviour4to decide that something is not a possibility SYN rule out: Social workers have excluded sexual abuse as a reason for the child’s disappearance. At this stage we cannot entirely exclude the possibility of staff cuts.THESAURUSexclude formal to deliberately not include someone or something, especially in a way that seems wrong or unfair: · The new law protects most workers, but excludes those on part-time contracts.omit formal to not include something, especially a piece of information, either deliberately or because you forget: · Sara’s name had been omitted from the list of employees.leave out to not include someone or something, either deliberately or accidentally. Leave out is more common in everyday English than exclude or omit: · Fans were shocked that Giggs had been left out of the team.· You must have left out one of the numbers.miss out British to not include someone or something that should be included, often by mistake: · You missed out several important facts.· They’ve missed out the last letter of his name.drop to decide not to include someone or something – used especially about not including someone in a team: · He was dropped from the team because of injury.· The company decided to drop the word ‘healthy’ from its advertising.be exempt(ed) from something formal used when saying that a rule, law, agreement etc does not affect someone or something: · People with bad eyesight were exempt from military service.· High technology equipment would be exempted from any trade agreement.
WORD ORIGINexclude
Origin:
1300-1400 Latin excludere, from claudere ‘to close’VERB TABLE
exclude
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | exclude |
| he, she, it | excludes | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | excluded |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have excluded |
| he, she, it | has excluded | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had excluded |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will exclude |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have excluded |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am excluding |
| he, she, it | is excluding | |
| you, we, they | are excluding | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was excluding |
| you, we, they | were excluding | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been excluding |
| he, she, it | has been excluding | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been excluding |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be excluding |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been excluding |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Joe felt sure the others were speaking Russian simply to exclude him.
- Kids who are excluded from school often end up getting into trouble with the police.
- She felt they were deliberately excluding her from their plans.
- Stack belongs to a country club that once excluded blacks and Jews from membership.
- The Catholic church continues to exclude women from the priesthood.
- The governing body decided to exclude Declan for two weeks.
- The new law protects most workers, but excludes those on part-time contracts.
- The report concluded that far more boys were excluded each year than girls.
- Among those children, thus excluded from our final reckonings, was the boy I have called Edward.
- Clauses which seek to exclude or restrict liability for misrepresentation are regulated by s3 of the Misrepresentation Act 1967.
- Mr X and the spouse of Mr X may be excluded from all benefit.
- Patients with previous cholecystitis diagnosed by scintigraphic examination of the gall bladder were excluded.
- The Sixth Directive, art 11A.3, states that the taxable amount excludes price discounts.
- These features excluded any intention of the parties to allow claims from the individual inhabitants.
- This effectively excludes vast swathes of the planet's population.
THESAURUS
formal to deliberately not include someone or something, especially in a way that seems wrong or unfair: · The new law protects most workers, but excludes those on part-time contracts.
formal to not include something, especially a piece of information, either deliberately or because you forget: · Sara’s name had been omitted from the list of employees.
to not include someone or something, either deliberately or accidentally. Leave out is more common in everyday English than exclude or omit: · Fans were shocked that Giggs had been left out of the team.· You must have left out one of the numbers.
British to not include someone or something that should be included, often by mistake: · You missed out several important facts.· They’ve missed out the last letter of his name.
to decide not to include someone or something – used especially about not including someone in a team: · He was dropped from the team because of injury.· The company decided to drop the word ‘healthy’ from its advertising.
formal used when saying that a rule, law, agreement etc does not affect someone or something: · People with bad eyesight were exempt from military service.· High technology equipment would be exempted from any trade agreement.
Longman Language Activatorto not include someone or something to not include someone or something, either deliberately or accidentally: leave somebody/something out of something: · Fans were shocked that Giggs had been left out of the team.leave out somebody/something: · He briefly told us what had happened, leaving out the more gruesome details.leave somebody/something out: · I went through a list of people to be thanked, and hoped I hadn't left anyone out.
formal to deliberately not include someone or something, especially in a way that seems wrong or unfair: · The new law protects most workers, but excludes those on part-time contracts.exclude somebody from something: · She felt they were deliberately excluding her from their plans.
formal to not include something, especially a piece of information, either deliberately or because you forget: · Please do not omit any details, however trivial they may seem.omit something from something: · Sara's name had been omitted from the list of employees.
British to not include someone or something that should be included, often by mistake: miss out somebody/something: · You missed out several important facts.miss somebody/something out: · Those are the people I'm inviting. Did I miss anyone out?
informal to suddenly remove something or someone from a list, plan etc, because there is a good reason for not including them: · I don't think this article will be of interest to our readers. Let's drop it.drop something from something: · The coach just announced that Henri will be dropped from the team.
to make someone leave school or college to make someone leave school or college permanently because they have behaved badly: expel somebody for something: · The principal expelled John for stealing.get/be expelled: · If they catch you dealing drugs, you'll get expelled.
also chuck out British informal to make someone leave school, college, or university permanently because of bad behaviour or for failing examinations: · She said she'd kick us out if she caught us doing it again.throw/kick out of: · Do your parents know you've been kicked out of school yet?· He got chucked out of the LSE.
to officially say that a student can no longer attend his or her school, either for a short time or permanently, as a punishment for bad behaviour: · The report concluded that far more boys were excluded each year than girls.· The governing body decided to exclude Declan for two weeks.exclude from: · Kids who are excluded from school often end up getting into trouble with the police.
to not let someone take part to not include someone in an activity or in a group: leave somebody out: · I can't believe she invited everyone else in the office and left me out.leave out somebody: · We meant to include everyone, but we accidentally left out three members.leave somebody out of something: · Her husband was always leaving her out of his plans.
to prevent someone from taking part in an activity, or from joining a group: · Joe felt sure the others were speaking Russian simply to exclude him.exclude somebody from something: · The Catholic church continues to exclude women from the priesthood.· Stack belongs to a country club that once excluded blacks and Jews from membership.
to decide that someone can no longer be in a team: · He couldn't run fast enough, so the coach dropped him.drop somebody from something: · She was dropped from the badminton team because she missed practice too often.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY At this stage we cannot entirely exclude the possibility of staff cuts.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
At this stage we cannot entirely exclude the possibility of staff cuts. (=say that something will definitely not happen or is definitely not true)· We can't rule out the possibility that there will be more redundancies.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB· Money held for business purposes is specifically excluded under all policies.· It has written its growth management plan to specifically exclude residential development around Lego Park.· The Act specifically excludes from its ambience cheques, safe-deposit books, membership certificates of co-operatives, and bills of exchange.· Many policies specifically exclude rehabilitative or convalescent care.· Such arrangements are specifically excluded from education and the social services.
NOUN· The remaining students were excluded from the analysis.· Children with missing values for gestational age or birth weight were excluded from the analysis.· These patients were excluded from further analysis.· One study did not use a double-blind design and was therefore excluded from the analysis.· We exclude from the analysis those five observations where the output decision was quite clearly in the wrong ballpark.· In addition a single visit was made to five sites, but these counts have been excluded from this analysis.
· Korematsu was not excluded from the Military Area because of hostility to him or his race.· As the name implies, the service is limited to the graphics-rich World Wide Web, excluding discussion areas.
· The Government first attempted to exclude altogether supplementary benefit and national assistance from the scope of regulation 72.· Thus the presence of dependants is used as a means of excluding women from benefits.· Mr X and the spouse of Mr X may be excluded from all benefit.· Mr X sets up an overseas trust under which he and his spouse are excluded from all benefit.· The settlor and his spouse should thus effectively be excluded from all possible benefit under the trust.· In other words, women's caring responsibilities are being used as a ground for excluding them from benefits.· Nevertheless, these two last studies can not exclude a real benefit for the heater probe.
· A general exclusion clause which excludes liability altogether is thus very unlikely to be reasonable under s 3.· Two approaches to clauses which purport to exclude liability for breach of fiduciary duty are discernible.· Some exclusion clauses do not totally exclude liability for a breach but only restrict it.· A special mention should be made of the use of novel forms of clauses designed to exclude any possibility of judicial review.· Such clauses exclude all prior representations and negotiations, and, usually, ancillary documentation, such as sales literature, as well.· First there are straight forward clauses which purport to exclude or limit liability for breaches of fiduciary duty.· Equally important is the last sentence of the clause which excludes prior representations and extraneous material, such as sales catalogues.
· They are expressive of the sentiments of retributive justice that Beccaria wished to exclude from consideration of punishments.· He excluded from consideration the interest of the state in protecting innocent third parties and preventing suicide.· This calculation excludes any consideration of time costs, which evidence suggests are considerable.
· One specimen from each patient was examined histologically to exclude mucosal disease, notably microadenoma in familial adenomatous polyposis.· Obstruction covered all mechanical obstruction to the urinary tract, excluding prostatic disease.
· It was also within the Special Commissioner's discretion to exclude opinion evidence that sought to answer the question before him.· He ordered the drugs excluded from evidence.· The Law Society also considers that the recommendation enabling judges to exclude relevant evidence in certain circumstances is capable of being abused.· The decision whether to admit or exclude evidence lay with the court of trial.
· All that is necessarily involved is a sense of belonging that excludes indifference to the group as well as alienation from it.· Extending the rights of man to women is not just another expansion of the social contract to include another excluded group.
· Two approaches to clauses which purport to exclude liability for breach of fiduciary duty are discernible.· A notice in the guest's room sought to exclude liability for loss or damage to guest's property.· A clause which does not expressly mention conditions will not normally exclude liability for breach of condition.· Those terms include terms which limit and exclude our liability for breaches of contract.· Can he exclude his liability for negligence?· First, it is impossible to exclude liability for death or personal injuries caused by negligence.· Clauses which seek to exclude or restrict liability for misrepresentation are regulated by s3 of the Misrepresentation Act 1967.· If the drafter wishes to exclude liability in such cases, he/she must therefore ensure that the wording is very clear.
· You can't get peace in Sierra Leone by excluding one of the parties in the peace process.· Torgyan alerted the media to the takeover, which had involved his being physically excluded from party headquarters.
· Patients with previous cholecystitis diagnosed by scintigraphic examination of the gall bladder were excluded.· We excluded recently transfused patients and no patients had increased reticulocyte counts.· Patients with gall stones or established inflammatory bowel disease were excluded.· Exhaustive microbiological analysis were performed in order to exclude patients with gastrointestinal infection.· Patients with secondary involvement of the stomach by non-Hodgkin's lymphoma were therefore excluded.· He excluded patients with cystic fibrosis by performing duodenal drainage tests for the measurements of pancreatic enzyme concentrations in the duodenal juice.· However, at a clinical level such factors need to be excluded when examining a patient suspected of having dementia.· Patients with abnormal liver function tests, gall stones, previous cholecystectomy, or hepatic metastases were excluded.
· Some relocation policies exclude new recruits from receiving other allowances, such as travel and accommodation expenses.· Our interview policy excludes no-one, and our pages have never been dominated by any one style.· Many policies specifically exclude rehabilitative or convalescent care.· The storm section of the policy excludes landslip damage but the damage could be covered under the landslip section of the policy.· It should be noted that the policy excludes the theft of any pedal cycle left both unlocked and unattended away from the home.· The policy excludes any part of the premises used for business purposes.
· We can not exclude the possibility, however, of abnormal metabolism of platelet activating factor in four of them.· The second step is designed to exclude this possibility.· For example although duration is commonly measured for tantrums, this does not exclude the possibility of measures of frequency.· A special mention should be made of the use of novel forms of clauses designed to exclude any possibility of judicial review.· Thus, for both of them the theory of forms excluded all possibility of evolution.· However the courts are in general reluctant to exclude the possibility of such legal representation intoto within a particular area.· The guidelines exclude the possibility of assessment of the bargain under the contract as described above.· No description of such entities is so precise as to exclude apriori all possibility of an ambiguous reference.
· The professions have not been excluded from this process.· And who is being excluded in this process?· Under the 1935 Act the hill areas were excluded from the political process.· In practice, no group can be excluded from the process.
· The consequence is, therefore, that far fewer girls than boys are excluded from school.· Must religion be completely excluded from schools?· She tells Karen that Victor is being excluded from school indefinitely for bullying and for kicking Joan.· Truants and those excluded from school were five times more likely to take drugs.· Nationally, 8% of black pupils are excluded from schools.· They've all been partially excluded from mainstream schools, where they found it hard to fit in.
· Two patients from each group were excluded from the study after six months of active treatment.· Patients with previous oesophageal or gastric surgery were excluded from the study.· These confounding factors may largely be excluded by future case-control studies.· People who said they wouldn't borrow money were excluded from this study.· Patients with abnormal findings at endoscopy or who had had previous surgery were excluded from the study.· The figure gives a detailed breakdown of patients included and excluded from the study.· Subjects were excluded from the study if they suffered from any debilitating or life threatening disease, including invasive cancer.
· Its use of active procedures tends to exclude women, for instance.· There are many ways of excluding women.· Thus the presence of dependants is used as a means of excluding women from benefits.· The strategy of continuing to exclude women from the union did not prevent their recruitment in ever greater numbers by the employers.· In understanding male power it is important to understand that masculine oligarchies exclude not only all women but most men.· More social history is being taught but examination syllabuses still focus on political and economic history which conventionally excludes women.· We excluded women with hypothyroidism and with hyperprolactinaemia related to drug treatment.· The vote, which excludes ordination of women as bishops, needed only a simple majority.
VERB· I don't feel bitter about being excluded.· It was hard for Kent, a new and very young company member as well as white, not to feel excluded.· And you feel excluded by the lesbian communities.· Nixon because he felt excluded from it, Kennedy because he considered it beneath him.· When Miranda used to fizz about being in a play, I felt ... excluded.· If you live long enough on South Vermont, you begin to feel not just excluded but out of the picture entirely.· I feel jealous and excluded, but I am ashamed to say so.· Connections' inaugural issue featured a front-page story by Scott Forman about growing up feeling different and excluded in a sighted world.
· Which is why a society that blithely accepts this included / excluded ledger is an unsafe society.· Stili another possibility is final domestic sales which includes imports but excludes exports and inventory investment. 6.· Furthermore, the shifting definition of an Elandsklower included and later excluded certain individuals from the register.· Extending the rights of man to women is not just another expansion of the social contract to include another excluded group.
· Two approaches to clauses which purport to exclude liability for breach of fiduciary duty are discernible.· First there are straight forward clauses which purport to exclude or limit liability for breaches of fiduciary duty.
· A notice in the guest's room sought to exclude liability for loss or damage to guest's property.· Clauses which seek to exclude or restrict liability for misrepresentation are regulated by s3 of the Misrepresentation Act 1967.· The haulier will seek to exclude his contractual liability for certain acts or omissions, just like any other shrewd businessman.· In the fringing rural areas, existing residents seek to exclude lower income owner occupied developments.· Experts could seek to exclude the implied duty of skill and care in individual references, but it is not attractive.
WORD FAMILYnounexclusion ≠ inclusionverbexclude ≠ include
1to deliberately not include something OPP include: a special diet that excludes dairy products The judges decided to exclude evidence which had been unfairly obtained.exclude something from something Some of the data was specifically excluded from the report.RegisterIn everyday English, people usually say leave something or someone out rather than exclude something or someone:· Some information was left out of the report.· We didn’t mean to leave you out.2to not allow someone to take part in something or not allow them to enter a place, especially in a way that seems wrong or unfair OPP include: a mainstream exhibition that excluded women artistsexclude somebody from (doing) something The press had been deliberately excluded from the event. Sarah heard the other girls talking and laughing and felt excluded.3British English to officially make a child leave their school because of their bad behaviour4to decide that something is not a possibility SYN rule out: Social workers have excluded sexual abuse as a reason for the child’s disappearance. At this stage we cannot entirely exclude the possibility of staff cuts.THESAURUSexclude formal to deliberately not include someone or something, especially in a way that seems wrong or unfair: · The new law protects most workers, but excludes those on part-time contracts.omit formal to not include something, especially a piece of information, either deliberately or because you forget: · Sara’s name had been omitted from the list of employees.leave out to not include someone or something, either deliberately or accidentally. Leave out is more common in everyday English than exclude or omit: · Fans were shocked that Giggs had been left out of the team.· You must have left out one of the numbers.miss out British to not include someone or something that should be included, often by mistake: · You missed out several important facts.· They’ve missed out the last letter of his name.drop to decide not to include someone or something – used especially about not including someone in a team: · He was dropped from the team because of injury.· The company decided to drop the word ‘healthy’ from its advertising.be exempt(ed) from something formal used when saying that a rule, law, agreement etc does not affect someone or something: · People with bad eyesight were exempt from military service.· High technology equipment would be exempted from any trade agreement.