excludable

adj, noun — 3 senses

excludable

adj

Etymology From exclude + -able.

1

Able to be excluded.

Under the same law that made [Hans Paul] Verhoef's detention possible, the legal status of over 600 amnesty applicants who have lived in this country for close to a decade is being reviewed. Those found excludable because of HIV antibody-positivity will become "undocumented" and vulnerable to deportation.1990 February 4, Jorge Cortiñas, “Selling Out Immigrants”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 29, page 10:

2

Economics, Sciences To which access can be restricted to only paying customers.

Air is not an excludable good: it is available to everybody for free.

Antonyms: inexcludable
Derived terms: excludability, nonexcludable, unexcludable, Witherspoon-excludable

excludable

noun

Etymology From exclude + -able.

1

One who or that which can be excluded.

These increases in the ranks of the excludables brought an accompanying increase in the ranks of the deportables1992, Asian Americans and the Supreme Court: A Documentary History, page 90:

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