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excludable en · ADJ

Etymology

From exclude + -able.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Able to be excluded.
   • Under the same law that made [Hans Paul] Verhoef's detention possible, the legal status of over 600 amnesty applicants who have lived in this country for close to a decade is being reviewed. Those found excludable because of HIV antibody-positivity will become "undocumented" and vulnerable to deportation. 1990 February 4, Jorge Cortiñas, “Selling Out Immigrants”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 29, page 10:
2. (not-comparable) To which access can be restricted to only paying customers.
   • Air is not an excludable good: it is available to everybody for free.

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Antonyms

inexcludable

Deriveds

Witherspoon-excludable · unexcludable · nonexcludable · excludability

excludable en · NOUN

Etymology

From exclude + -able.

Meanings

1. One who or that which can be excluded.
   • These increases in the ranks of the excludables brought an accompanying increase in the ranks of the deportables 1992, Asian Americans and the Supreme Court: A Documentary History, page 90:

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