exclusive
/ɪkˈsklu.sɪv/ adjective B1- Excluding items or members that do not meet certain conditions.
- Referring to a membership organisation, service or product: of high quality and/or renown, for superior members only.
- A snobbish usage, suggesting that members who do not meet requirements, which may be financial, of social status, religion, skin colour etc., are excluded. · Exclusive clubs tend to serve exclusive brands of food and drinks, in the same exorbitant price range, such as the 'finest' French châteaux.
- Exclusionary.
- Whole, undivided, entire. · The teacher's pet commands the teacher's exclusive attention.
- Of or relating to the first-person plural pronoun when excluding the person being addressed. · The pronoun in "We're going to a party later, but you aren't invited" is an exclusive "we".
- Having a romantic or sexual relationship with one another, to the exclusion of others. · They decided to no longer be exclusive.
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That was Marilla’s exclusive duty; if it had been his he would have been worried over frequent conflicts between inclination and said duty.
“For one thing,” answered Richard, rankling a little, “it won’t buy one into the exclusive circles of society.”
“You tell me where your exclusive circles would be if the first Astor hadn’t had the money to pay for his steerage passage over?”
Consequently, numerous campaigns have been launched over the years to encourage the exclusive use of grammatically conventional English in professional settings.
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