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Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th
exclusive
ex·clu·sive AW [exclusive exclusives] adjective, noun BrE [ɪkˈskluːsɪv] NAmE [ɪkˈskluːsɪv]
adjective
1. only to be used by one particular person or group; only given to one particular person or group
•The hotel has exclusive access to the beach.
•exclusive rights to televise the World Cup
•His mother has told ‘The Times’ about his death in an exclusive interview (= not given to any other newspaper).
2. (of a group, society, etc.)not very willing to allow new people to become members, especially if they are from a lower social class
•He belongs to an exclusive club.
3. of a high quality and expensive and therefore not often bought or used by most people
•an exclusive hotel
•exclusive designer clothes
4. not able to exist or be a true statement at the same time as sth else
•The two options are not mutually exclusive (= you can have them both).
5. ~ of sb/sth not including sb/sth
•The price is for accommodation only, exclusive of meals.
Opp: ↑inclusive
Word Origin:
late 15th cent. (as a noun denoting something that excludes): from medieval Latin exclusivus, from Latin excludere ‘shut out’, from ex- ‘out’ + claudere ‘to shut’.
Thesaurus:
exclusive adj.
•an exclusive hotel
select • • elitist •
Opp: inclusive
a/an exclusive/select group/clientele
an exclusive/elitist image
Example Bank:
•The prices given are exclusive of travel.
•The recording deal is not necessarily exclusive. The band can record material for other companies as well.
•The school is expensive and necessarily exclusive.
•The two options are not mutually exclusive.
•These products are exclusive to our outlets.
•a somewhat exclusive venue
•the course's almost exclusive concentration on grammar
•His clientele was exclusive and wealthy.
•His mother has told ‘The Times’ about his death in an exclusive interview.
•It is one of the most expensive, exclusive resorts in the Mediterranean.
•She had been sent to one of London's most exclusive girls' schools.
•exclusive designer shops/clothes
Derived Words: ↑exclusively ▪ ↑exclusiveness
noun
an item of news or a story about famous people that is published in only one newspaper or magazine
•We feature an exclusive on the mothers whose babies were swapped at birth.
Word Origin:
late 15th cent. (as a noun denoting something that excludes): from medieval Latin exclusivus, from Latin excludere ‘shut out’, from ex- ‘out’ + claudere ‘to shut’.
Example Bank:
•The paper printed a world exclusive on the presidential scandal.
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