exclusive

  1. Adjective.  (literally) Excluding items or members that do not meet certain conditions.
  2. Adjective.  (figuratively) Referring to a membership organisation, service or product: of high quality and/or reknown, for superior members only. A snobbish usage, suggesting that members who do not meet requirements, which may be financial, of celebrity, religion, skin colour etc., are excluded.
  3. Adjective.  exclusionary.
  4. Adjective.  whole, undivided, entire.
  5. Noun.  Information (or an artefact) that is granted or obtained exclusively.

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