exclusion

/ɪksˈkluːʒən/ noun

Definition

› [C, U] when someone or something is not allowed to take part in an activity or to enter a place: the exclusion of disruptive pupils → Opposite inclusion

to the exclusion of sth › If you do something to the exclusion of something else, you do it so much that you have no time to do anything else.

(Definition of exclusion noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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