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adjective

Exclusive adj.

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.

Not taking into the account; excluding from consideration; opposed to inclusive; as, five thousand troops, exclusive of artillery.

noun

Exclusive n. One of a coterie who exclude others; one who from real of affected fastidiousness limits his acquaintance to a select few.

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Etymology of 'Exclusive'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Exclusive" Quotes from Famous Books

... 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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