EGAVE

exclusive

Academic Word List, sublist 3.

About 13.61 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Excluding items or members that do not meet certain conditions.
  2. adjective Referring to a membership organisation, service or product: of high quality and/or renown, for superior members only.
  3. adjective 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.
  4. adjective Exclusionary.
  5. adjective Whole, undivided, entire.
    The teacher's pet commands the teacher's exclusive attention.
  6. adjective 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".
  7. adjective Having a romantic or sexual relationship with one another, to the exclusion of others.
    They decided to no longer be exclusive.
  8. noun Information (or an artefact) that is granted or obtained exclusively.
    The editor agreed to keep a lid on a potentially disastrous political scoop in exchange for an exclusive of a happier nature.

Similar words

sole alone only single inner undivided selective inside concentrated privileged

Often followed by

of right use rights and jurisdiction to economic control

Word family

exclude excluded excludes excluding exclusion exclusionary exclusionist exclusions exclusively exclusiveness

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