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# barring

«barring» in Mova's school dictionary: **except for, leaving out one thing or person from what is…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

preposition (from the verb bar, barred, barring)

### meaning for a pupil

Barring means except for, leaving out one thing or person from what is said. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barring/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in the lessons, it leaves one thing out of a list or count, as in "all the sweets, barring the sour ones".

### examples

- Everyone came, barring Sam, who was ill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barring/#x1)
- We can play any game, barring football. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barring/#x2)
- All the bees were friendly, barring one. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barring/#x3)

### note

it takes one thing out of the group, so that group is one less; 'all of them barring one' means the total minus one.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «barring» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barring/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.