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exclusion
noun as in act of leaving or keeping out.
Example Sentences
Beyond youth unemployment, the electoral process has also stirred controversy, especially with the exclusion of Maurice Kamto from the presidential race.
Changes to the estate-tax exclusion amount, meanwhile, could save some taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars.
“Consumers, in turn, must review their coverage, understand exclusions, and ensure their policies reflect their personal risk profile.”
Hence the Civil Rights Act’s exclusion of “Indians not taxed”—language that also appeared in Section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment.
More ominously, the West Coast white-labor movement pushed for Chinese immigrant labor exclusion from railroads, resulting in the Chinese Exclusion Act, the first but not last U.S. immigration-restriction law.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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