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| in·clu·sive [ in klssiv ] |
adjective |
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1. including many things: including many things or everything
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2. within particular limits: including the numbers, dates, or other series members mentioned immediately before
See also exclusiveadj (sense 7)
  the period from October 1 to July 31, inclusive
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3. including people of all kinds: not excluding any group or section of society
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4. nondiscriminatory: describes language that avoids discrimination, limitation, or stereotypes based on gender
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5. grammar including speaker and person addressed: describes a pronoun such as "we" that includes the speaker and the person or persons spoken to
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6. logic containing at least one true proposition: describes a sentence in logic disjunction containing two propositions of which at least one and possibly both can be true.
See also exclusiveadj (sense 9)
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| [Late 16th century. < medieval Latin inclusivus< Latin inclus- (see include)] |
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| in·clu·sive·ly adverb |
| in·clu·sive·ness noun |
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