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Definition of Exclusive
1. Adjective. Not divided or shared with others. "Sole rights of publication"
2. Noun. A news report that is reported first by one news organization. "He got a scoop on the bribery of city officials"
3. Adjective. Excluding much or all; especially all but a particular group or minority. "An exclusive restaurants and shops"
Derivative terms: Exclude, Exclusiveness
Antonyms: Inclusive
4. Adjective. Not divided among or brought to bear on more than one object or objective. "Gained their exclusive attention"
Definition of Exclusive
1. a. Having the power of preventing entrance; debarring from participation or enjoyment; possessed and enjoyed to the exclusion of others; as, exclusive bars; exclusive privilege; exclusive circles of society.
2. n. One of a coterie who exclude others; one who from real of affected fastidiousness limits his acquaintance to a select few.
Definition of Exclusive
1. Adjective. (literally) Excluding items or members that do not meet certain conditions. ¹
2. Adjective. (figuratively) Referring to a membership organisation, service or product: of high quality and/or reknown, for superior members only. A snobbish usage, suggesting that members who do not meet requirements, which may be financial, of celebrity, religion, skin colour etc., are excluded. ¹
3. Adjective. exclusionary ¹
4. Adjective. whole, undivided, entire ¹
5. Noun. Information (or an artefact) that is granted or obtained exclusively. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Exclusive
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Exclusive
1. 1. Excluding or inclined to exclude others (at outsiders) from participation. 2. Single. 3. Undivided, whole. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exclusive
Literary usage of Exclusive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1888)
"The patent is the evidence of his exclusive right to the use of the invention
... certainly has no exclusive right to it until he obtains a patent. ..."
2. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1908)
"402 was in terms exclusive and was intended to be made so by the city. We shall
assume the same thing. Indeed, it would be impossible to decide otherwise. ..."
3. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1892)
"In order to render them such, there must be an exclusive privilege conferred upon
... An exclusive grant of the ri'ht ; operate a railroad between two р! ..."
4. The Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert: Embracing Romances, Travels by Gustave Flaubert, Ferdinand Brunetière (1904)
"... you are my exclusive occupation, my whole wealth, the object, the centre of
my existence and of my thoughts. I can no more live without you than without ..."
5. The Spanish Regime in Missouri: A Collection of Papers and Documents by Etienne Burnet, Ernest Edward Austen, Louis Houck (1909)
"... and of the small capital for his aid, he petitions Your Lordship to be so good
as to grant him the exclusive trade with said Ponka tribe for ..."
6. Hedda Gabler: A Drama in Four Acts by Henrik Ibsen (1891)
"I have received from the author exclusive rights of translation for the
English-speaking countries, and I hereby state that these rights have been purchased ..."
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