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ex·clu·sive

 (ĭk-sklo͞o′sĭv)
adj.
1. Excluding or tending to exclude: exclusive barriers.
2. Not allowing something else; incompatible: mutually exclusive conditions.
3. Not divided or shared with others: exclusive publishing rights.
4. Not accompanied by others; single or sole: your exclusive function.
5. Complete; undivided: gained their exclusive attention.
6. Not including the specified extremes or limits, but only the area between them: 10-14, exclusive; that is, 11, 12, and 13.
7. Excluding some or most, as from membership or participation: an exclusive club.
8. Catering to a wealthy clientele; expensive: exclusive shops.
9. Linguistics Relating to or being a first person plural pronoun that excludes the addressee, such as we in the sentence Pat and I are in town, so we can meet you for lunch.
n.
1. A news item initially released to only one publication or broadcaster.
2. An exclusive right or privilege, as to market a product.

ex·clu′sive·ly adv.
ex·clu′sive·ness, ex′clu·siv′i·ty (ĕk′sklo͞o-sĭv′ĭ-tē) n.
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Adv.1.exclusively - without any others being included or involvedexclusively - without any others being included or involved; "was entirely to blame"; "a school devoted entirely to the needs of problem children"; "he works for Mr. Smith exclusively"; "did it solely for money"; "the burden of proof rests on the prosecution alone"; "a privilege granted only to him"
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exclusively

adverb solely, totally, fully, entirely, wholly, uniquely This is still an exclusively male domain.
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exclusively

adverb
To the exclusion of anyone or anything else:
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Translations
بالأقْتِصار على، على وَجْه الخُصوصعَلَى وَجْه الـحَصْر
výlučně
eksklusivtmondæntudelukkende
yksinomaan
isključivo
kizárólagosan
aîeins, eingöngu
もっぱら
독점적으로
uteslutande
โดยเฉพาะ
dành riêng

exclusively

[ɪksˈkluːsɪvlɪ] ADVexclusivamente
this is not exclusively the fault of the governmentesto no es culpa del gobierno exclusivamente
available exclusively fromde venta exclusiva en ...
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exclusively

[ɪkˈskluːsɪvli] adv [male, female] → exclusivement
almost exclusively → presque exclusivementexclusive rights nplexclusivité f
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

exclusively

advausschließlich; (Press) → exklusiv; details were exclusively revealed by HelloEinzelheiten wurden exklusiv in Hello enthüllt; an (almost) exclusively white populationeine (fast) ausschließlich weiße Bevölkerung; to be available exclusively (from/to)ausschließlich or exklusiv (bei/für) erhältlich sein
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exclusively

[ɪksˈkluːsɪvlɪ] advesclusivamente
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exclusive

(ikˈskluːsiv) adjective
1. tending to exclude.
2. (of a group etc) not easily or readily mixing with others or allowing others in. a very exclusive club.
3. given to only one individual or group etc. The story is exclusive to this newspaper.
4. fashionable and expensive. exclusive shops/restaurants.
exˈclusively adverb
exˈclusiveness noun
exclusive of
excluding. That is the price of the meal exclusive of service charge.
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exclusively

عَلَى وَجْه الـحَصْر výlučně udelukkende ausschließlich αποκλειστικά exclusivamente yksinomaan exclusivement isključivo esclusivamente もっぱら 독점적으로 exclusief utelukkende wyłącznie exclusivamente исключительно uteslutande โดยเฉพาะ yalnızca dành riêng 专有地
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AT ONE TIME a very large and strong Wolf was born among the wolves, who exceeded all his fellow-wolves in strength, size, and swiftness, so that they unanimously decided to call him "Lion." The Wolf, with a lack of sense proportioned to his enormous size, thought that they gave him this name in earnest, and, leaving his own race, consorted exclusively with the lions.
It was, however, obvious, that this kind of interest must in the end occasion a degree of sameness and repetition, if exclusively resorted to, and that the reader was likely at length to adopt the language of Edwin, in Parnell's Tale:
If this had been effected, who would have ever imagined that in an early transitional state they had been inhabitants of the open ocean, and had used their incipient organs of flight exclusively, as far as we know, to escape being devoured by other fish?
The French are so exclusively occupied with the idea of themselves, that in spite of the very definite image the German personality presented to them by the war of 1870, they have at present no distinct apprehension of its existence.
Cathy is a sufficiently good little scholar, for her nine years; her mother taught her Spanish herself, and kept it always fresh upon her ear and her tongue by hardly ever speaking with her in any other tongue; her father was her English teacher, and talked with her in that language almost exclusively; French has been her everyday speech for more than seven years among her playmates here; she has a good working use of governess - German and Italian.
The gentlemen assembled at Bilibin's were young, wealthy, gay society men, who here, as in Vienna, formed a special set which Bilibin, their leader, called les notres.* This set, consisting almost exclusively of diplomats, evidently had its own interests which had nothing to do with war or politics but related to high society, to certain women, and to the official side of the service.
At the same time we held that there is a certain subject matter, namely images, to which only psychological causal laws are applicable; this subject matter, therefore, we assigned exclusively to psychology.
"Why," in a flash it came to me, "it's Rosalind!" and clean forgetting to be shy, or polite to my companion, I hastened across to her, to be greeted instantly in a manner so exclusively intimate that the little crowd about her presently spread itself among the other crowds, and we were left to talk alone.
This question it never entered his mind to ask himself; yet he was fully aware of how exclusively favoured he was.
On completing his high school and university courses with medals, Alexey Alexandrovitch had, with his uncle's aid, immediately started in a prominent position in the service, and from that time forward he had devoted himself exclusively to political ambition.
Was he thinking exclusively of me--as I was thinking exclusively of him?
I had adopted the American values exclusively. In a week or two now, cents, nickels, dimes, quarters, and half-dollars, and also a trifle of gold, would be trickling in thin but steady streams all through the commercial veins of the kingdom, and I looked to see this new blood freshen up its life.