Showing results for "precluded"

• past participle of preclude.
• past tense form of preclude.

precluded

American  

[pri-kloo-did] / prɪˈklu dɪd /

adjective

1. prevented or made impossible; disallowed or ruled out.

   A company can "fairly dismiss" an employee without giving a reason, so long as the position does not fall into a precluded category under the law.

2. (of a person) excluded or debarred; shut out.

   Literature by people of other races and cultures allows us to listen to these previously precluded voices of difference.

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verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of preclude.

Other Word Forms

• unprecluded
  adjective

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Etymology

Origin of precluded

preclude ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

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Example Sentences

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precluded

But some of them seemed to dispute the defence's claim that postpartum psychosis - a rare post-childbirth condition characterised by mania and depression - precluded Clancy from criminal liability.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026

According to the article, the design at the time precluded development on the eagles’ lakefront hunting grounds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026

Reading the Westfall Act with close “attention to its text,” he concluded, shows that Congress has not precluded laws like Maine’s.

From Slate ● Apr. 15, 2026

The secrecy precluded a medal of honor without a waiver from Congress.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 22, 2025

It precluded anyone from treating zero as a number.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

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