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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Newspapers & magazines: headlines & features
advertorial
advice column
advice columnist
agony aunt
agony column
agony uncle
comic strip
cover story
dateline
double-page
double-page spread
obituary
op-ed
opinion piece
personal column
press cutting
problem page
splash
spread
thought piece

exclusive | American Dictionary

exclusive
adjective
us/ɪkˈsklu·sɪv/
limited to only one person or group of people:
The pool is for the exclusive use of residents of Springfield.
A place that is exclusive provides goods and services for a limited number of people, esp. those who are wealthy:
an exclusive club

exclusive | Business English

exclusive
adjective
uk /ɪksˈkluːsɪv/us
limited to only one person, group of people, or organization:
an exclusive agreement/contract/dealThe licence provides the company with an exclusive 12-year agreement for gambling rights on the island.
exclusive rights/an exclusive licence to do sthThey have been given exclusive rights to distribute replicas of the ring.
He seems to have exclusive access to the boss.
Dedicate a computer, phone, and fax for your exclusive use.
exclusive to sb/sthShe was approached by the marketing director to create a line of shoes exclusive to the stores.
expensive and of a high quality, and therefore only for people who are rich or of a high social class:
an exclusive area/hotel/shop
The estate agent described the houses as "an exclusive development of detached executive homes with views of the river".
relating to something that is the only official one of its type:
an exclusive distributor/provider/supplierThe agreement makes GE the exclusive supplier on the new jet.
 exclusive of sth
not including something:
The price is £315.00 exclusive of VAT.
 mutually exclusive
not possible at the same time:
Ethics, values, and high performance are not mutually exclusive.

Examples of exclusive

exclusive
Late prehistoric ostentation, by contrast, was aimed at a larger audience and there is no sign of an exclusive elite culture.
Constraints for the connects space are inclusive or exclusive in nature.
The exclusivity definition specifies that a par t is either exclusive or shared.
The shared and exclusive use of resource is generalized via the use of contexts.
Subsequently, all autosomes were re-analysed using models with exclusive paternal or maternal expression [4].
In addition to the non-exclusive relationships found, there was also the nature of the discriminating factors to be taken into consideration.
Women are expected to work as well as bear children and the two roles are not seen as mutually exclusive.
The exclusive use of non-appliance methods increases as the educational level declines.
Duration of exclusive nursing and nursing at night were the significant predictors.
Based on our findings, perceptual similarity may qualify as a sort of conclusive evidence for two-year-olds that labels do not denote mutually exclusive categories.
The exclusive emphasis on equivalences reflects the intended transformational application of laws.
Thus, the patterns -, -a -, and sl - sr are exhaustive and exclusive.
Politics and policy making were claimed to be the exclusive domain of the state.
They often specifically targeted their disadvantaged beneficiaries in an open, unabashed way, and were often exclusive.
The problem with this finding is that none of the social, religious, and economic categories examined above are exclusive of others.
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