Preclusion

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of precluding, or the state of being precluded, in any sense of that word.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of precluding, or the state of being precluded; a shutting out.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The act of precluding
  • noun. The condition of being precluded
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  • noun. the act of preventing something by anticipating and disposing of it effectively
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    bar  prevention  
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