exclusive

Forms

1.Excluding items or members that do not meet certain conditions.
2.Referring to a membership organisation, service or product: of high quality and/or renown, for superior members only.
3.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.Exclusionary.

1.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.
2.A member of a group who excludes others from their society.
- The exclusives at the English Universities apply the term CAD to all non-members.
3.A word or phrase that restricts something, such as only, solely, or simply.

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From Latin exclūsīvus

From excludere (“to shut out, exclude”)

From ex- (“out”) + variant form of verb claudere (“to close, shut”).