Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - exclusive

(exclusives) 1. If you describe something as exclusive, you mean that it is limited to people who have a lot of money or who belong to a high social class, and is therefore not available to everyone. He is already a member of Britain’s most exclusive club... The City was criticised for being too exclusive and uncompetitive. ADJ • exclusiveness ...a rising middle class, which objected to the exclusiveness of the traditional elite. N-UNCOUNT • exclusivity ...a company with a reputation for exclusivity. N-UNCOUNT: oft the N of n 2. Something that is exclusive is used or owned by only one person or group, and not shared with anyone else. Our group will have exclusive use of a 60-foot boat... Many of their cheeses are exclusive to our stores in Britain. ADJ: oft ADJ to n 3. If a newspaper, magazine, or broadcasting organization describes one of its reports as exclusive, they mean that it is a special report which does not appear in any other publication or on any other channel. He told the magazine in an exclusive interview: ‘All my problems stem from drink’. ADJ: usu ADJ n • An exclusive is an exclusive article or report. Some papers thought they had an exclusive. N-COUNT 4. If a company states that its prices, goods, or services are exclusive of something, that thing is not included in the stated price, although it usually still has to be paid for. Skiing weekends cost ?58 (exclusive of travel and accommodation). ? inclusive ADJ: usu v-link ADJ of n 5. If two things are mutually exclusive, they are separate and very different from each other, so that it is impossible for them to exist or happen together. They both have learnt that ambition and successful fatherhood can be mutually exclusive. PHRASE: v-link PHR