Meaning & use
excluding
Not including a particular person, item, or category in a total or group.
See it in a sentence
The building has ten floors, excluding the basement and rooftop terrace.
Everyone is invited, excluding those who haven't paid their membership dues.
A note on using this word
As a preposition, 'excluding' introduces the thing left out of a count or statement, similar to 'except.'
Words with a similar meaning
except fornot counting
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Words with an opposite meaning
including
Another way to use it
2. verb
Present participle of exclude: the act of deliberately leaving someone or something out.
Excluding him from the meeting only made the conflict worse.
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