Other forms: excluded, excluding, excludes
To exclude is to shut somebody or something out of a group. Exclude them from the list, excluded from school, excluding VAT.
In British schools, to exclude a pupil is the formal term for what used to be called suspension or expulsion, and permanent exclusion is the most serious sanction available. In pricing, excluding is the standard word: excluding VAT, excluding delivery. Note exclusion, exclusive; and that mutually exclusive means two things that cannot both be true, which is a precise logical term.
1verbexcludeTo shut somebody or something out of a group.
“The older girls excluded her from their games at break time.”
2verbleaveTo leave out of a total or a calculation.
“The price excludes delivery, which costs extra.”
exclude is a shutting out.
Latin excludere is ex- plus claudere, to shut. Close, include, conclude and recluse come from the same shutting.
Proto-Indo-European
*(s)kleh₂w-
Latin
exclūdō
English, today
exclude
Built from
Borrowed from Latin exclūdō, from prefix ex- (“out”) + variant form of verb claudō (“close”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA