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Definition: Exclusively |
ExclusivelyAdverb1. Without any others being included or involved; "was entirely to blame"; "a school devoted entirely to the needs of problem children"; "he works for Mr. Smith exclusively"; "did it solely for money"; "the burden of proof rests on the prosecution alone"; "a privilege granted only to him". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "exclusively" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references) |
Synonyms: ExclusivelySynonyms: alone (adv), entirely (adv), only (adv), solely (adv). (additional references) |
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Screenplays | Double-0 seven on an island populated exclusively by women (Octopussy; writing credit: George MacDonald Fraser) That the study belongs to you exclusively is evident from the dust: not even the maid is permitted here, else she would scarcely have ventured to let matters come to this pass (The Seven-Per-Cent Solution; writing credit: Arthur Conan Doyle; Nicholas Meyer) | |
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Vaccinia necrosum has occurred almost exclusively among persons with cellular immunodeficiency. This is a 64 year old patient after having received a smallpox vaccination. Credit: CDC. | ![]() | Fish and Wildlife Service Vessel CISCO. Operated exclusively on the Great Lakes for fisheries research. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. | |
![]() | Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship HILGARD. Used almost exclusively for wiredrag work. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. | ![]() | Gouache painting of a pair of lesser scaup by Neal R. Anderson, 7401 Stevens Ridge Road, Lincoln, Nebraska 68516. A wildlife artist who had entered paintings in five previous Duck Stamp contests, placing second in 1985 with a pair of redhead ducks, third in 1983 with a single redhead. In 1986, he began devoting full time to wildlife painting. He paints almost exclusively in gouache. Specializing in waterfowl, Anderson's work is known for its detail, sharpness, and clarity. Return to the Federal Duck Stamp Office Home Page. |
![]() | 19th Century lithograph, purporting to represent CSS Florida (1862-1864). This image bears no real resemblance to that ship: Florida had two smokestacks, not one as shown here; a battery that included pivot guns, not an exclusively broadside armament; and a bark rig, not that of a ship; among other differences from the vessel seen in this print. Credit: NAVY. | ![]() | Billy devoted himself exclusively to the spice cake. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | These cattle are fed grass exclusively. Makes prime Western beef. Cruzen Ranch, Valley County, Idaho. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Japanese enlistment. Another truckload of American citizens of Japanese ancestry arrive at Selective Service Board No. 9, Waipahu, Territory of Hawaii, to apply for voluntary induction into the recently organized combat regiment made up exclusively of 1,5. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Production. Shell loading. TNT is poured into shells through these funnels on a distribution line in a large Midwest loading plant. TNT, used almost exclusively in shells, looks like a good grade of maple sugar. It is believed that soon the United States. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Bird's eye view of Waukegan, Ill., from Lawrence Captive Airship at 1000 ft. altitude. Published exclusively for W[...] Wandel, Waukegan, Ill. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Rosa Luxemburg | Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently. |
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Communist Manifesto | 1848 | Wage-labour rests exclusively on competition between the laborers. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | These taxes and dues will be exclusively applied to the needs of the territory. (reference) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | Harriet Smith might think herself not unworthy of being peculiarly, exclusively, passionately loved by Mr. Knightley |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | They are exclusively woodland |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | It affects females almost exclusively. (references) | |
Hantaviruses replicate exclusively in the host cell cytoplasm. (references) | ||
By stage 4, the brain produces delta waves almost exclusively. (references) | ||
Business | Tennis is almost exclusively for the wealthy in the Philippines. (references) | |
The key contacts however, are exclusively incentive travel related. (references) | ||
It is planned exclusively to expand Taiwan market for foreign publishers. (references) | ||
Children | China | Children put up for foreign adoption are almost exclusively girls. (references) |
Mongolia | The Government also provides tax benefits to enterprises that hire the disabled, and some firms hire the disabled exclusively. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Equatorial Guinea | Religious study is required in schools and is usually, but not exclusively, Catholic. (references) |
Discrimination | Andorra | The Constitution declares that all persons are equal before the law and prohibits discrimination on grounds of birth, race, sex, origin, religion, opinions, or any other personal or social condition, although the law grants many rights and privileges exclusively to citizens. (references) |
Economic History | Germany | Thus supply is met exclusively by imports. (references) |
China | The pork import market, although very large, is exclusively offal. (references) | |
Human Rights | Malaysia | Nonetheless, the Courts did not rule exclusively in favor of the Government. (references) |
Micronesia | While there are no official restrictions, no local groups concern themselves exclusively with human rights. (references) | |
Haiti | While previously judges conducted most legal proceedings exclusively in French, they increasingly use Creole in judicial proceedings. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Malaysia | In November an NGO working on behalf of indigenous people in the state of Sarawak expressed deep concern over the passage of the state assembly's Land Surveyors Bill, which requires land surveys to be carried out exclusively by state-licensed land surveyors. (references) |
Minorities | Mexico | The abuse related to these and other incidents apparently did not occur solely and exclusively on the basis of religion. (references) |
Switzerland | The voters rejected 48 applicants, almost all exclusively from southeast Europe, while approving 8 Italians' citizenship bids. (references) | |
Political Economy | Hong Kong | The Basic Law states that the HKSAR will maintain its own currency and use revenues exclusively for its own purposes. (references) |
CANADA | Banking falls exclusively under federal jurisdiction, while the regulation of securities companies falls under provincial control. (references) | |
KUWAIT | Kuwait does not directly subsidize any of its exports, which consist almost exclusively of crude oil, petroleum products, and fertilizer. (references) | |
Political Rights | Trinidad and Tobago | The PNM is primarily but not exclusively Afro-Trinidadian; the UNC is primarily but not exclusively Indo-Trinidadian. (references) |
Monaco | The seven-member Crown Council (composed exclusively of Monegasque nationals) must be consulted by the Prince on certain questions of national importance. (references) | |
Congo | Provincial government resources, both financial and logistical, almost exclusively have come from Kinshasa since Laurent Kabila took control of the Government in 1997. President Joseph Kabila continued his father's practice of filling a disproportionate number of government positions with persons from his home province of Katanga, and specifically from his Muluba ethnic group. (references) | |
Trade | Turkey | Import duties are calculated exclusively on C.I.F. prices. (references) |
Nigeria | All items entering the country must be labeled in metric terms exclusively. (references) | |
Chile | The amount of financing depends exclusively on the US content of the proposed project. (references) | |
Travel | Honduras | U.S.-style music is featured on several stations, but news is exclusively in Spanish. (references) |
Canada | The Canadian National Railway deals exclusively with cargo, while VIA Rail provides passenger service. (references) | |
Japan | Likewise, American business people should recognize the importance of working with the staff-level of their Japanese counterparts and not exclusively with the executive level. (references) | |
Women | Congo | They constitute the majority of primary agricultural laborers and small-scale traders and almost exclusively are responsible for child rearing. (references) |
Bahamas | The Domestic Court, which exclusively addresses family issues such as spousal abuse, maintenance payments, and legal separation, continued to receive a high volume of cases. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Austria | The OGB is exclusively responsible for collective bargaining. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LAND, n. A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure. Carried to its logical conclusion, it means that some have the right to prevent others from living; for the right to own implies the right exclusively to occupy; and in fact laws of trespass are enacted wherever property in land is recognized. It follows that if the whole area of terra firma is owned by A, B and C, there will be no place for D, E, F and G to be born, or, born as trespassers, to exist. A life on the ocean wave, A home on the rolling deep, For the spark the nature gave I have there the right to keep. They give me the cat-o'-nine Whenever I go ashore. Then ho! for the flashing brine -- I'm a natural commodore! Dodle |
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Rush Limbaugh | While channel surfing after the big Supreme Court decision, I noticed that the media was focusing almost exclusively on the dissent of the court. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Madison | 1809-1817 | The Constitution has entrusted Congress exclusively with the power of creating and regulating a currency of that description, and the measures which were taken during the last session in execution of the power give every promise of success. |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | In the concerns which are exclusively internal there is good cause to be satisfied with the result. |
John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | Whatsoever is of domestic concernment, unconnected with the other members of the Union or with foreign lands, belongs exclusively to the administration of the State governments. |
James K. Polk | 1845-1849 | I regard the question of annexation as belonging exclusively to the United States and Texas. |
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| "Exclusively" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 99.94% of the time. "Exclusively" is used about 1,702 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 99.94% | 1,701 | 4,930 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.06% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,702 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "exclusively": non-exclusively. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "exclusively"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | slegs (alone, just, only, solely), net (alone, exactly, just, just now, okay, only, right, solely). (various references) | |
Albanian | vetëm (alone, but, just, lonely, merely, nothing but, only, simply, singly, so that, sole, solely, solitary, solus). (various references) | |
Arabic | ما عدا (bar, but, except, excepting, excluding, save), على وجه الحصر. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | изключително (entirely, especially, exceptionally, extraordinarily, notably, rarely, signally, uncommonly, wholly). (various references) | |
Chinese | 完全 (Complete, Completeness, Comprehensiveness, CPL, Downright, out-and-out, Physically, Plenary, totally, utter, Wholly). (various references) | |
Czech | exkluzivnì, výluènì (wholly), výhradnì (only, solely, specially, wholly). (various references) | |
Danish | kun (alone, just, only, solely). (various references) | |
Dutch | uitsluitend (exclusive, just, only), exclusief (exclusive). (various references) | |
Esperanto | ekskluzive, nur (just, only). (various references) | |
Faeroese | bert (alone, just, only, solely). (various references) | |
Finnish | yksinomaan (solely), vain (alone, but, just, merely, only, solely), ainoastaan (alone, just, merely, only, solely). (various references) | |
French | seulement. (various references) | |
German | ausschließlich (excessive, exclusive, purely, sole), exclusiv (rarefied). (various references) | |
Greek | υποχρέωση αποκλειστικής μεταπώλησης ορισμένων προϊόντων (obligation to resell exclusively certain products), χρήση προϊόντων σώματος ανθρώπου αποκλειστικά για επιστημονικούς σκοπούς (products of the human body used exclusively for scientific purposes), η συσσώρευση Sr 90 στα ψάρια περιορίζεται σχεδόν αποκλειστικά στους σκληρούς ιστούς-τα οστά και τα λέπια (accumulation of Sr-9O in fish is almost exclusively confined to the hard tissues - bones and scales), η εναπόθεση των μικρών σωματιδίων γίνεται σχεδόν μόνο στους τελικούς αναπνευστικούς αγωγούς (the deposition of the small particles takes place almost exclusively in the terminal respiratory passages), εισαγωγικοί δασμοί αποκλειστικά φορολογικού χαρακτήρα (import duties of an exclusively fiscal nature), εξαγωγικοί δασμοί αποκλειστικά φορολογικού χαρακτήρα (export duties of an exclusively fiscal nature), από τότε που η χρήση φωσφορικών εστέρων για την καταπολέμηση των αφίδων και άλλων παρασίτων των οπωροφόρων οδήγησε σε σημαντική προσβολή α (since the use of phosphoric esters for combatting aphids and other fruit plant parasites has led to considerable infestation by red spider(tetranychid)the chemical industry has succeeded in producing specific insecticides(acaricides)which act exclusively), αποκλειστικώς φορολογικός χαρακτήρας (exclusively fiscal nature), οι εμπορικοί κλάδοι περιλαμβάνουν όλες τις μονάδες ομοιογενούς παραγωγής όλων των θεσμικών τομέων,οι οποίες ασχολούνται αποκλειστικά με (which are exclusively engaged in the production of goods and market services). (various references) | |
Hebrew | אך ורק (only, purely, simply, solely), 'ר"א (only, simply, solely). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kizárólagosan (alone), kizárólag (alone, solely). (various references) | |
Indonesian | semata-mata (merely, simply), melulu (only). (various references) | |
Italian | soltanto (alone, but, just, merely, only, solely), non ... che (alone, just, only, solely), esclusivamente (exclusive). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 専一 (best care). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | せ"いつ (best care), せ"いち (best care). (various references) | |
Korean | 독 하. (various references) | |
Papiamen | solamente (alone, just, only, solely), djis (alone, just, only, solely). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | exclusivelyay.(various references) | |
Polish | tylko (just, only), dopiero (just, only). (various references) | |
Portuguese | exclusivamente (all, alone, expressly, selectly, solely), somente (but, just, only, solely), só (alone, barely, but, cloistered, just, lone, lonely, lonesome, lorn, mere, only, single, sole, solitary). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | exclusivamente. (various references) | |
Romanian | numai (alone, barely, but, just, mere, merely, none but, only, simply, solely). (various references) | |
Russian | только (as late as, barely, ever, just, merely, nothing but, only, solely), исключительно (exceptionally, notably, only, singularly, solely). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | isključivo (entirely). (various references) | |
Spanish | sólo (alone, by oneself, just, merely, on one's own, only, solely, unique), no ... mas que (alone, just, only, solely), exclusivamente. (various references) | |
Sranan | kodo (just, only). (various references) | |
Swahili | tu (alone, just, only, solely). (various references) | |
Swedish | endast (alone, but, entirely, just, merely, only, solely). (various references) | |
Tagalog | lámang (alone, just, only, solely). (various references) | |
Turkish | yalnız (alone, by yourself, isolated, just, lone, lonely, lonesome, merely, on one's tod, only, private, single handed, singly, sole, solitarily, solitary, unaccompanied, unattended), sadece (barely, but, hardly, itself, just, merely, nigh but, nothing but, nothing else, only, only just, purely, scarcely, simply, solely), sırf (mere, merely, only, pure, purely, sheer, simply, solely, stark, very), ancak (alone, barely, but, hardly, however, just, merely, nevertheless, on the other hand, only, only just, purely, scarcely, solely, yet), özellikle (above all, especially, expressly, in especial, in particular, notedly, particularly, principally, specially). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | тільки (alone, barely, but, entirely, just, merely, nothing but, only, purely), виключно (alone, entirely). (various references) | |
Yucatec | chen (alone, just, only, solely). (various references) | |
Zulu | kuphela (just, only). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | modo, proprie, solum, tantum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "exclusively" (pronounced ikskluw"sivlē) |
| 8 | -k l uw" s i v l ē | conclusively. |
| 6 | -uw" s i v l ē | effusively. |
| 5 | -s i v l ē | aggressively, cohesively, comprehensively, compulsively, decisively, defensively, derisively, excessively, expensively, explosively, extensively, impassively, impressively, impulsively, inconclusively, inexpensively, intensively, massively, obsessively, offensively, passively, persuasively, progressively, reflexively, successively. |
| 4 | -i v l ē | accumulatively, actively, administratively, affectively, affirmatively, alternatively, appreciatively, assertively, attentively, attractively, authoritatively, collectively, comparatively, competitively, consecutively, conservatively, constructively, cooperatively, creatively, cumulatively, deceptively, definitively, distinctively, effectively, exhaustively, figuratively, furtively, imaginatively, instinctively, intuitively, legislatively, negatively, objectively, positively, preemptively, productively, prohibitively, prospectively, protectively, provocatively, qualitatively, relatively, respectively, retroactively, retrospectively, seductively, selectively, sensitively, substantively, tentatively. |
| 3 | -v l ē | bravely, gravely, lively, lovely, naively, plaintively, quantitatively. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-l-l-s-u-v-x-y" | |
-2 letters: elusively, exclusive. | |
-4 letters: culexes, cullies, elusive, vesicle. | |
-5 letters: clevis, cullis, evilly, excels, excise, excuse, exiles, ilexes, levels, levies, lively, lycees, sexily, silvex, sluice, sluicy, vexils, vilely, villus. | |
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