Other forms: exclusions
Exclusion is the shutting out of somebody or something. Social exclusion, exclusion from the group, to the exclusion of everything else.
In British schools exclusion is the formal term for what used to be called suspension or expulsion: a fixed-term exclusion is temporary, a permanent exclusion means the pupil cannot return. In insurance, exclusions are the things a policy does not cover, and reading them is the whole point of reading a policy. Note social exclusion, a term in policy for people shut out of ordinary life by poverty or disability, and its opposite, inclusion, which is now the commoner word of the two.
1nounexclusionThe act of shutting somebody or something out.
“Exclusion from the group was the whole punishment.”
synonyms: shutting out, barring
2nounpolicySomething a policy or rule does not cover.
“Check the exclusions before you sign anything.”
3nounremovalThe formal removal of a pupil from a school.
“There were two permanent exclusions that year.”
exclusion is a shutting out.
Latin excludere is ex-, out, plus claudere, to shut — the same verb behind close, include and conclude. Exclusion is shutting out, and inclusion is shutting in, which is a slightly startling thing to notice about a warm word.
Proto-Indo-European
*(s)kleh₂w-
Latin
exclusiō
Middle English
exclusion
English, today
exclusion
From Middle English exclusion, exclusioun, from Old French and Latin exclusiō, from exclūdō. by surface analysis, exclude + -sion.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA