EXCLUSION Synonyms

• an official prohibition or edict against something

• a group's refusal to have commercial dealings with some organization in protest against its policies

• refuse to sponsor; refuse to do business with

• unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice

• the cognitive process whereby two or more stimuli are distinguished

• a judgment disposing of the matter without a trial

• official notice that you have been fired from your job

• permission to go; the sending away of someone

• the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)

• unfitness that bars you from participation

• the act of preventing someone from participating by finding them unqualified

• a government order imposing a trade barrier

• ban the publication of (documents), as for security or copyright reasons

• prevent commerce

• a state of separation between persons or groups

• a feeling of being disliked and alone

• the act of isolating something; setting something apart from others

• (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which memory of an unacceptable act or impulse is separated from the emotion originally associated with it

• a country's withdrawal from international politics

• lack of attention and due care

• the state of something that has been unused and neglected

• willful lack of care and attention

• the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern

• failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances

• leave undone or leave out

• fail to do something; leave something undone

• fail to attend to

• give little or no attention to

• the state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent)

• the act of excluding someone from society by general consent

• a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages

• a decree that prohibits something

• the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment

• refusal to approve or assent to

• the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof)

• the act of rejecting something

• the state of being rejected

• (medicine) an immunological response that refuses to accept substances or organisms that are recognized as foreign

• the speech act of rejecting

• (genetics) the separation of paired alleles during meiosis so that members of each pair of alleles appear in different gametes

• a social system that provides separate facilities for minority groups

• the act of segregating or sequestering

• a list of people who are out of favor

• put on a blacklist so as to banish or cause to be boycotted

• harsh criticism or disapproval

• the state of being excommunicated

• rebuke formally

• the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting

• the act of forcing out someone or something

• omission of a sound between two words (usually a vowel and the end of one word or the beginning of the next)

• a deliberate act of omission

• a deliberate act of omission

• an instance that does not conform to a rule or generalization

• grounds for adverse criticism

• the state of being excommunicated

• the act of banishing a member of a church from the communion of believers and the privileges of the church; cutting a person off from a religious society

• the act of forcing out someone or something

• squeezing out by applying pressure

• the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting