exclusion

exclusion
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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
Act of excluding
Nouns
1. exclusion, omission, exception, rejection, relegation; preclusion, elimination, displacement; separation, discrimination, exclusiveness, insularity; segregation, apartheid; quarantine, isolation, ostracism; redlining, disinvestment; xenophobia, parochialism; ethnocentrism; prohibition; exile, deportation, banishment, ejection; purge. Informal, golden exile.
2. clan, clique (see party); outsider, outcast, untouchable, children of God, persona non grata; foreigner, alien, expatriate; silent treatment, blacklist. Slang, shit list.
Verbs — exclude, [de]bar; prohibit, preclude; freeze out, edge out; leave out, rule or count out, reject, blackball; lay, put, or set aside; relegate, pass over, omit, eliminate, weed out, throw over, throw overboard; strike out; separate, segregate, isolate, insulate, ostracize, weed out; displace; blacklist, redline, disinvest; keep or shut out, except; exile, banish, deport, eject. Informal, count out, blackball, leave out in the cold, drum out, freeze out. See deduction.
Adjectives — exclusive, cliquish, clannish; closed; sole, unique; one and only, barring all others; exclusory, exclusive, prohibitive; select, restrictive; excluded, left out, isolated, solitary, banished, inadmissible, unacceptable; segregated, quarantined, isolated, ghettoized; insular, xenophobic, parochial, ethnocentric.
Prepositions — exclusive of, outside of, barring, except; with the exception of; save. Informal, outside of.
Quotations — Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded (Mary Shelley).
Antonyms, see inclusion.
II
(Roget's IV) n.
Syn. keeping out, rejection, ejection, elimination, prohibition, cut, embargo, ban, nonadmission, relegation, omission, segregation, isolation, ostracism, interdiction, preventing admission, erecting barriers, blockade, boycott, repudiation, separation, ousting, eviction, dismissal, banishment, suspension, excommunication, refusal, expulsion, debarring, barring, shutting out, blackballing.
Ant. welcome*, invitation, inclusion.

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