EXCLUSIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does exclusive mean? 

• EXCLUSIVE (noun)
  The noun EXCLUSIVE has 1 sense:

1. a news report that is reported first by one news organization

  Familiarity information: EXCLUSIVE used as a noun is very rare.

• EXCLUSIVE (adjective)
  The adjective EXCLUSIVE has 3 senses:

1. not divided or shared with others

2. excluding much or all; especially all but a particular group or minority

3. not divided among or brought to bear on more than one object or objective

  Familiarity information: EXCLUSIVE used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXCLUSIVE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A news report that is reported first by one news organization

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

exclusive; scoop

Context example:

he got a scoop on the bribery of city officials

Hypernyms ("exclusive" is a kind of...):

account; news report; report; story; write up (a short account of the news)

• EXCLUSIVE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not divided or shared with others

Synonyms:

exclusive; sole

Context example:

sole rights of publication

Similar:

unshared (not shared)

Derivation:

exclude (prevent from being included or considered or accepted)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Excluding much or all; especially all but a particular group or minority

Context example:

an exclusive restaurants and shops

Similar:

alone; only (exclusive of anyone or anything else)

inner (exclusive to a center; especially a center of influence)

inner; inside; privileged (confined to an exclusive group)

selective (characterized by very careful or fastidious selection)

white-shoe (denoting a company or law firm owned and run by members of the WASP elite who are generally conservative)

Antonym:

inclusive (including much or everything; and especially including stated limits)

Derivation:

exclude (prevent from entering; keep out)

exclusiveness (tendency to associate with only a select group)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Not divided among or brought to bear on more than one object or objective

Synonyms:

exclusive; single; undivided

Context example:

gained their exclusive attention

Similar:

concentrated (gathered together or made less diffuse)

 Context examples 

This spectacle of another's suffering and sacrifice rapt my thoughts from exclusive meditation on my own.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

If Mimas possesses an ocean, it would join an exclusive club of "ocean worlds" that includes several moons of Jupiter and two other Saturn moons, Enceladus and Titan.

(Saturn Moon May Hide a 'Fossil' Core or an Ocean, NASA)

With the addition of these nine, 21 exoplanets are now known to be members of this exclusive group.

(Kepler Mission Announces Largest Collection of Planets Ever Discovered, NASA)

A morphologic variant of papillary carcinoma of the thyroid gland characterized by the predominance or the exclusive presence of macrofollicles.

(Macrofollicular Variant Thyroid Gland Papillary Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

He was fastidiously exclusive, and no guest at the cottage ever succeeded in making up to him.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

In the romantic sense, December 27 will be a beautiful day to become engaged, to promise to be exclusive to each other, to make a promise, or plan together.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

My own exclusive breakfast of a penny loaf and a pennyworth of milk, I provided myself.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The team found millions of previously unknown DNA variations that are exclusive to one continental or major geographical region.

(Global human genome study reveals our complex evolutionary history, University of Cambridge)

A document or statement granting exclusive right to own, publish, and sell literary, musical, or artistic work, or intellectual property.

(Copyright, NCI Thesaurus)

I came off, too, to report the only exclusive information that is given to-day regarding the strange escapade at the Zoo.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)