If a price is inclusive, it includes all the charges connected with the goods or services offered. If a price is inclusiveof postage and packing, it includes the charge for this.
...all prices are inclusive of delivery. [+ of]
...an inclusive price of £32.90.
Synonyms: comprehensive, full, overall, general More Synonyms of inclusive
Inclusive is also an adverb.
...a special introductory offer of £5,995 fully inclusive.
2. See also all-inclusive
3. adjective [noun ADJECTIVE]
After stating the first and last item in a set of things, you can add inclusive to make it clear that the items stated are included in the set.
Training will commence on 5 October, running from Tuesday to Saturday inclusive.
...£10 for senior citizens and children (5 to 16 inclusive).
4. adjective
If you describe a group or organization as inclusive, you mean that it allows all kinds of people to belong to it, rather than just one kind of person.
The academy is far more inclusive now than it used to be.
More Synonyms of inclusive
inclusive in British English
(ɪnˈkluːsɪv)
adjective
1. (postpositive; foll byof)
considered together (with)
capital inclusive of profit
2. (postpositive)
including the limits specified
Monday to Friday inclusive is five days
3.
comprehensive
4.
not excluding any particular groups of people
an inclusive society
5. logic
(of a disjunction) true if at least one of its component propositions is true
Compare exclusive (sense 10)
Derived forms
inclusively (inˈclusively)
adverb
inclusiveness (inˈclusiveness)
noun
inclusive in American English
(ɪnˈklusɪv; also, ɪnˈkluzɪv)
adjective
1.
including or tending to include; esp., taking everything into account; reckoning everything
2.
including the terms, limits, or extremes mentioned
ten days, from the third to the twelfth inclusive
Idioms:
inclusive of
Derived forms
inclusively (inˈclusively)
adverb
inclusiveness (inˈclusiveness)
noun
Word origin
LL inclusivus < L inclusus, pp. of includere
Examples of 'inclusive' in a sentence
inclusive
What we offer is an inclusive world for beauty junkies.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
All offers are inclusive of post and packing.
The Sun (2013)
The answer is a fully inclusive package.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Its care to be balanced and inclusive can also make it timid.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
British tennis has to be far more inclusive.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
And it is the kind of friendship that is inclusive of other people.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
The château offers one inclusive price.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Instead, help was needed to make them more inclusive and accountable.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
A very extensive and fully inclusive touring programme.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
A choice of five extensive and fully inclusive touring programmes.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Some lines offer a less inclusive approach to the tours, specifically because their passengers prefer to make their own choices and save money.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
I am trying to change the credit scoring system in America to make it inclusive rather than exclusive.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
We should tackle society to make it more inclusive of disabled people,' he said.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
That idea doesn't always go over well in our tolerant, inclusive society.
Christianity Today (2000)
Alternatively, disruptive technologies are not inclusive of society, they are unsettling to consumers and do not guarantee national economic success.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
This is very nice but it doesn't mean we should sit back and think about what fabulously inclusive people we've all become.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Fully inclusive from the UK.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
He'll push to make football more inclusive and appealing and he knows that making and spending more and more money isn't the answer.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
In other languages
inclusive
British English: inclusive /ɪnˈkluːsɪv/ ADJECTIVE
If a price is inclusive, it includes all the charges connected with the goods or services offered. If a price is inclusive of postage and packing, it includes the charge for this.
...all prices are inclusive of delivery.
American English: inclusive
Arabic: بـِمَا فِيهِ
Brazilian Portuguese: inclusivo
Chinese: 包含的
Croatian: uključiv
Czech: včetně
Danish: inklusive
Dutch: inclusief
European Spanish: inclusive
Finnish: jonkin sisältävä
French: tout compris
German: inklusive
Greek: περιεκτικός
Italian: compreso
Japanese: 含めて
Korean: 포괄적인
Norwegian: iberegnet
Polish: obejmujący
European Portuguese: inclusivo
Romanian: un preț care include toate costurile aferente respectivului produs/serviciu
Russian: включающий
Latin American Spanish: inclusive
Swedish: inberäknad
Thai: รวมทุกอย่าง
Turkish: kapsamlı
Ukrainian: включно
Vietnamese: bao gồm
All related terms of 'inclusive'
all-inclusive
All-inclusive is used to indicate that a price , especially the price of a holiday , includes all the charges and all the services offered .
inclusive of
including; taking into account
inclusive or
the connective that gives the value true to a disjunction if either or both of the disjuncts are true
self-inclusive
including oneself or itself
inclusive fitness
the fitness of an individual organism as measured in terms of the survival and reproductive success of its kin , each relative being valued according to the probability of shared genetic information, an offspring or sibling having a value of 50 percent and a cousin 25 percent
inclusive language
language that avoids the use of certain expressions or words that might be considered to exclude particular groups of people, esp gender-specific words, such as "man", " mankind ", and masculine pronouns , the use of which might be considered to exclude women
inclusive disjunction
the connective that gives the value true to a disjunction if either or both of the disjuncts are true
all-inclusive hotel
A hotel is a building where people stay , for example on holiday , paying for their rooms and meals .
all-inclusive accommodation
Accommodation is used to refer to buildings or rooms where people live or stay .