exclusionary

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adjective

1. having the effect of excluding or shutting out someone or something.

   In wealthy suburbs with good schools, exclusionary zoning policies often block affordable housing development and keep out low-income people.

Word History and Origins

Origin of exclusionary¹

exclusion ( def. ) + -ary ( def. )

Example Sentences

“It feels really lifeless and exclusionary, and the love that those centers had for their students — that love hasn’t found its place back to campus yet,” she said in an interview.

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It’s easy to blame this lack of welcome on exclusionary, or perhaps just plain snobby, elites.

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It also wants a judge to declare Fox’s conduct unlawful under the Sherman Act and Florida’s anti-competition laws and prevent Fox from striking exclusionary contracts.

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Fox News "has long engaged in an exclusionary scheme to increase and maintain its dominance in the market for US right-leaning pay TV news," lawyers for Newsmax wrote in its antitrust complaint.

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There was backlash to the idea in London, where some critics found the practice racially exclusionary.

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