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# exclusion

«exclusion» in Mova's school dictionary: **Keeping someone or something out, or leaving them out:…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (exclusion — uncountable; an exclusion, exclusions)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Keeping someone or something out, or leaving them out: the exclusion of girls from the team. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exclusion/#m1)

2) (UK schools) Being sent away from school as a punishment (suspension or expulsion). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exclusion/#m2)

3) Something not covered or included, for example in an insurance policy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exclusion/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In schools «exclusion» in the UK means a pupil cannot come to school for a time; in everyday life leaving someone out of a game is exclusion and can hurt; in science an «exclusion zone» is an area people must keep out of. Phrases: «to the exclusion of», «exclusion zone», «fixed-term exclusion», «social exclusion».

### examples

- The pupil got a two-day exclusion for fighting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exclusion/#x1)
- Leaving one child out of every game is exclusion, and it hurts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exclusion/#x2)
- Nobody may enter the exclusion zone around the volcano. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exclusion/#x3)
- She practised piano to the exclusion of everything else. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exclusion/#x4)
- The insurance has some exclusions, like floods. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exclusion/#x5)
- Our class worked against the exclusion of new children. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exclusion/#x6)
- How the goddess of discord resented her exclusion from the marriage festivities has already been shown. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exclusion/#x7)

### note

From the verb «exclude». Opposite: inclusion. In maths, «excluding» or «exclusion of» means leave those out of the count: 20 children, excluding 3 absent, gives 17.

### In the corpora

- [A suspension (also called an exclusion) means a pupil must stay away from school for a set number of days.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/375-what-fights-cost-at-school/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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