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Exclusive   /ɪksklˈusɪv/   Listen
Exclusive

adjective
1.
Not divided or shared with others.  Synonym: sole.  "Sole rights of publication"
2.
Excluding much or all; especially all but a particular group or minority.  "An exclusive restaurants and shops"
3.
Not divided among or brought to bear on more than one object or objective.  Synonyms: single, undivided.  "A single devotion to duty" , "Undivided affection" , "Gained their exclusive attention"
noun
1.
A news report that is reported first by one news organization.  Synonym: scoop.



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... in Poughkeepsie—that half-way stop between New York and Albany; and she was as exclusive and opinionated a lady as might be found in that city ...
— Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper • James A. Cooper
... the girl's all right. I've seen too many girls in this Mecca for adventurous females and never made a mistake yet. I wish some of our grand dames would extend the glad hand. But I'm afraid they won't. Terrible exclusive, ...
— The Avalanche • Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
... Lady Hannah's laugh was the rattling of a mischievous boy's stick across his sister's piano-wires, and the metallic jangle preceded her assurance that everybody did it—all women in Society, at least, and you were thought odd if you didn't. After dinner, in the most exclusive houses, the most rigid of hostesses invariably allowed their women guests to smoke. They knew people worth having wouldn't come if they weren't ...
— The Dop Doctor • Clotilde Inez Mary Graves
... ancestors who two or three centuries ago delighted in hanging or even burning the exponents of opinions contrary to their own; and where intolerance is not in the way, the energy of literary cliques is exerted to hold exclusive ...
— Buchanan's Journal of Man, June 1887 - Volume 1, Number 5 • Various
... explained. "My business, including armed-guard and protected-delivery service, and general investigation and protection work, requires some personal supervision, but none of it demands my exclusive attention. Now, if you wanted some routine investigation made, I could turn it over to my staff, maybe put two or three men to work on it. But there's nothing about this business of yours that I could delegate to anybody; I'd have to do it all myself, at the expense of neglecting the ...
— Murder in the Gunroom • Henry Beam Piper


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