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excludable

excludable adjective: able to be excluded.

Adjective

excludable (not comparable)

  1. Able to be excluded.
    • Under the same law that made [Hans Paul] Verhoef's detention possible, the legal status of over 600 amnesty applicants who have lived in this country for close to a decade is being reviewed. Those found excludable because of HIV antibody-positivity will become "undocumented" and vulnerable to...1990 February 4, Jorge Cortiñas, “Selling Out Immigrants”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 29, page 10
  2. To which access can be restricted to only paying customers.
    • Air is not an excludable good: it is available to everybody for free.

Noun

excludable (plural excludables)

  1. One who or that which can be excluded.
    • These increases in the ranks of the excludables brought an accompanying increase in the ranks of the deportables1992, Asian Americans and the Supreme Court: A Documentary History, page 90

Antonyms of excludable

Forms of excludable

Adjective
alternative formexcludible
alternative formexclusible
Noun
pluralexcludables

Origin of excludable

From exclude + -able.

Words formed from excludable

Questions about excludable

What does excludable mean?
Excludable means able to be excluded.
What part of speech is excludable?
Excludable can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near excludable in the dictionary

  1. exclay
  2. exclinate
  3. exclosure
  4. exclosures
  5. excludability
  6. excludable
  7. excludables
  8. exclude
  9. excluded
  10. excludedness
  11. excludee

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