excusion

Noun

excursion (plural excursions)

1. A brief recreational trip; a journey out of the usual way.
   • While driving home I took an excursion and saw some deer.

   Synonyms:

   journey, trip, jaunt

2. (Australia) A field trip.
3. A wandering from the main subject: a digression.
   • Now all his ponderings, however excursive, wheeled round Isabel as their center; and back to her they came again from every excursion; and again derived some new, small germs for wonderment.1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities

   Synonyms:

   digression, excursus

4. An occurrence where an aircraft runs off the end or side of a runway or taxiway, usually during takeoff, landing, or taxi.
5. A deviation in pitch, for example in the syllables of enthusiastic speech.
6. Temporary deviation from a regular course or pattern
   • After an unsuccessful excursion into banking, I've returned to public life.

See all 7 meanings of excursion

Noun

exclusion (countable and uncountable, plural exclusions)

1. The act of excluding or shutting out; removal from consideration or taking part.
   • Mr. JOHNSON: But this amendment does not go far enough. I suppose the framers of the amendment thought it was necessary to provide for such an exigency. I do not see but that any one of these gentlemen may be elected President or Vice President of the United States, and why did you omit to exclude...1866 [1866 May 30], The Congressional Globe, Washington: Congressional Globe Office, →OCLC, page 2899, column 1
2. (obsolete) The act of pushing or forcing something out.
   • For the exclusion of animals is not merely passive like that of eggs, nor the total action of delivery to be imputed unto the mother, but the first attempt beginneth from the infant [...].1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.6
3. An item not covered by an insurance policy.