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exclude
formal to deliberately not include someone or something, especially in a way that seems wrong or unfair:
• The new law protects most workers, but excludes those on part-time contracts.
omit
formal to not include something, especially a piece of information, either deliberately or because you forget:
• Sara’s name had been omitted from the list of employees.
leave out
to not include someone or something, either deliberately or accidentally. Leave out is more common in everyday English than exclude or omit:
• Fans were shocked that Giggs had been left out of the team. • You must have left out one of the numbers.
miss out
British English to not include someone or something that should be included, often by mistake:
• You missed out several important facts. • They’ve missed out the last letter of his name.
drop
to decide not to include someone or something – used especially about not including someone in a team:
• He was dropped from the team because of injury. • The company decided to drop the word ‘healthy’ from its advertising.
be exempt(ed) from something
formal used when saying that a rule, law, agreement etc does not affect someone or something:
• People with bad eyesight were exempt from military service. • High technology equipment would be exempted from any trade agreement.
Longman-Thesaurus
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verb ADV. rigorously | altogether, completely, entirely, totally | not absolutely, not wholly The possibility of error cannot be absolutely excluded. | virtually | largely | permanently | apparently | clearly | automatically Unlawfully obtained evidence is not automatically excluded from a criminal trial. | necessarily | deliberately | explicitly, expressly, specifically | effectively By excluding children from pubs we are effectively excluding many parents. | systematically | unfairly VERB + EXCLUDE attempt to, be designed to, purport to, seek to a clause that seeks to exclude liability for death or serious injury | tend to tending to exclude certain groups from full participation in society PREP. from Women were excluded from the council. PHRASES feel excluded Many local people felt excluded from decisions that affected their own community.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary