The meaning of Exclude

verb

Officially or legally prohibit (something).

Usage examples:

Parking is banned around the harbour in summer

noun

An official or legal prohibition.

Usage examples:

A proposed ban on cigarette advertising

noun

A monetary unit of romania, equal to one hundredth of a leu.

Usage examples:

If you want milk you have to ask for it and it costs extra (often 50 bani or 5000 old lei) and is u…

verb

Send (someone) away from a country or place as an official punishment.

Usage examples:

A number of people were banished to siberia for political crimes

verb

To send someone away and forbid the person to come back

Usage examples:

He was banished from his sister's house., their goal is to banish war forever.

noun

A long rigid piece of wood, metal, or similar material, typically used as an obstruction, fastening, or weapon.

Usage examples:

An iron bar

verb

Fasten (something, especially a door or window) with a bar or bars.

Usage examples:

She bolted and barred the door

preposition

Except for.

Usage examples:

His kids were all gone now, bar one

verb

Reject (a candidate applying to become a member of a private club), typically by means of a secret ballot.

Usage examples:

Her husband was blackballed when he tried to join the country club

verb

To vote against allowing someone to be a member of an organization or group

Usage examples:

He was initially blackballed because of a dispute he once had with a couple of the committee members.

phrasal verb

Form and create by cutting out

noun

A piece of card cut into a particular shape, especially the shape of a person with a large photograph of that person on it

Usage examples:

He had his picture taken with a lifesize cardboard cutout of the president., his characters are car…

verb

Exclude or prohibit (someone) officially from doing something.

Usage examples:

First-round candidates were debarred from standing

verb

To stop someone from doing something by law or by official agreement

Usage examples:

He was debarred from the club for unacceptable behaviour.

verb

Expel (a barrister) from the bar, so that they no longer have the right to practise law.

Usage examples:

A disciplinary tribunal directed that he should be disbarred

verb

To take away someone's right to work as a lawyer, especially because they have done something wrong or illegal

Usage examples:

Disbar sb for sth the former attorney had been disbarred for fraud.

verb

Completely remove or get rid of (something).

Usage examples:

A policy that would eliminate inflation

verb

To remove or take away something

Usage examples:

You can never totally eliminate the possibility of human error., arts programs face elimination in …

verb

To completely remove something that is not wanted or needed

Usage examples:

The problem we confront today is there is no one thing that can eliminate our dependency on petrole…

noun

An official ban on trade or other commercial activity with a particular country.

Usage examples:

An embargo on grain sales

verb

Impose an official ban on (trade or a country or commodity).

Usage examples:

All of these countries have been embargoed by the us

noun

A government order to temporarily stop trading certain goods or with certain countries

Usage examples:

They put an embargo on imports of steel.

preposition

Not including; other than.

Usage examples:

They work every day except sunday

conjunction

Used before a statement that forms an exception to one just made.

Usage examples:

I didn't tell him anything, except that i needed the money

verb

Specify as excluded from a category or group.

Usage examples:

Five classes of advertisement are excepted from control

phrasal verb

Change from a liquid to a solid when cold

phrasal verb

To intentionally prevent someone from being involved in an activity

Usage examples:

They tried to freeze me out of the bonus money.

phrasal verb

To stop a person or organization from being included in a particular activity or arrangement

Usage examples:

Critics accused the company of lowering their prices below market value to freeze out the competiti…

phrasal verb

Remain outside.

Usage examples:

If a sign says a track is closed, please keep out

phrasal verb

To prevent something or someone from entering a place

Usage examples:

Danger! keep out!, you can’t keep the dirt out of the tent., children without regular medical care …

verb

Exclude from a society or group.

Usage examples:

She was declared a witch and ostracized by the villagers

verb

To prevent someone from being part of a group because you dislike the person or disapprove of something the person has done

Usage examples:

She was ostracized by fellow officers after bringing charges against her partner., those who refuse…

verb

Prevent from happening; make impossible.

Usage examples:

The secret nature of his work precluded official recognition

verb

Formally forbid (something) by law, rule, or other authority.

Usage examples:

All ivory trafficking between nations is prohibited

verb

To officially forbid something

Usage examples:

The law prohibits smoking in restaurants., loud music prohibited serious conversation.

verb

To officially stop something from being done by making rules or laws that do not allow it

Usage examples:

The government introduced a law prohibiting tobacco advertisements on tv., prohibit sb from doing s…

verb

Dismiss as inadequate, unacceptable, or faulty.

Usage examples:

Union negotiators rejected a 1.5 per cent pay award

noun

A person or thing dismissed as inadequate or unacceptable.

Usage examples:

Some of the team's rejects have gone on to prove themselves in championships

verb

To refuse to accept, use, or believe something or someone

Usage examples:

The school rejects a third of all applicants., as a child, she had felt rejected by her mother., in…

phrasal verb

Exclude someone or something as a possibility.

Usage examples:

Further testing had ruled out any infection

phrasal verb

To stop considering something as a possibility

Usage examples:

It’s unlikely that he’ll run for president, but you can never rule anything out.

phrasal verb

To decide or state that something is impossible or will not happen, or that something or someone is not suitable

Usage examples:

The management seems to have ruled him out as a candidate for promotion., the ceo said she could no…