excludable

English

Alternative forms

• excludible, exclusible

Etymology

From exclude +‎ -able.

Adjective

excludable (comparative more excludable, superlative most excludable)

1. Able to be excluded.
   • 1990 February 4, Jorge Cortiñas, “Selling Out Immigrants”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 29, page 10:

     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.

Antonyms

• inexcludable

Derived terms

• excludability
• nonexcludable
• unexcludable
• Witherspoon-excludable

Noun

excludable (plural excludables)

1. One who or that which can be excluded.
   • 1992, Asian Americans and the Supreme Court: A Documentary History‎^[1], page 90:

     These increases in the ranks of the excludables brought an accompanying increase in the ranks of the deportables