excludable
Americanadjective
noun
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something that is excluded or exempted.
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(in U.S. immigration statutes) an undesirable alien who is not legally eligible to enter the country.
Excludables include convicts and drug addicts.
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The fact that private goods are excludable and finite makes them tradable.
From Textbooks • Jul. 28, 2021
Forests, water, and fisheries, however, are a type of public good called common goods, which are not excludable but may be finite.
From Textbooks • Jul. 28, 2021
Unlike private property, they are not excludable and are essentially infinite.
From Textbooks • Jul. 28, 2021
Some 90% of the prisoners have been judged "excludable" and await deportation.
From Time Magazine Archive
At each stage, copying costs are lowered and goods become both less rival and less excludable.
From The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind by Boyle, James
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