Preclusive

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Tending to preclude; shutting out; preventive: generally followed by of.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Shutting out; precluding, or tending to preclude; hindering.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Serving to preclude.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. made impossible
  • Word Usage
    ""US would have a good sense and the cleverness and the ability to enter the black market and engage is what we used to call preclusive purchase...if NK thinks it can sell a nuclear weapon for $1bn, we ought to be in there offering $5bn" - Schelling quoted the outbidding of natural resources in WWII, I would add the successful control of balck market in ex-USSR states, and that it is cheaper to buy out North Korea today than tomorrow"
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