Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Taking a great deal or everything within its scope; comprehensive.
- adjective Including the specified extremes or limits as well as the area between them.
- adjective Linguistics Of, relating to, or being a first person plural pronoun that includes the addressee, such as we in the sentence If you're hungry, we could order some pizza.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Inclosing; encircling; comprehensive; in cluding: with of.
- Included in the number or sum; comprehending the stated limit or extremes: as, from Monday to Saturday inclusive (that is, taking in both Monday and Saturday).
- noun A term of inclusion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Inclosing; encircling; surrounding.
- adjective Comprehending the stated limit or extremes; ; -- opposed to
exclusive .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
including (almost)everything within itsscope - adjective including the
extremes as well as the area between - adjective linguistics of, or relating to the
first person plural pronoun when including the person being addressed
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective including much or everything; and especially including stated limits
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Examples
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In any society, there will be situations in which sociopaths (I use this term inclusive of "sociopaths and psychopaths" indicating varying types or degrees of the disorder) tend to feel more comfortable and congregate in greater numbers than usual.
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The Cato Institute's David Rittgers detects a rhetorical shift from "assault weapons," which was always an arbitrary and fuzzy category, to "military-style weapons," which he says is potentially "a term inclusive of all modern firearms in a back-door attempt to enact a new gun control scheme."
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The term "inclusive" is code for Republican light with a bid tent for gays, lesbians, transgenders, amnesty for illegal.
Latest Articles The Union Leader, Manchester, NH 2009
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A chromosome having the standard sequence of regions labelled 1 to 7, inclusive, is shown on the left.
Inversion 2010
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The resulting sum is called the inclusive fitness of the actor.
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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Total external Left to right all inclusive is 53mm
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Including all things as games: inclusive is the alternative I guess, but is that useful?
Archive 2009-04-01 Ben Abraham 2009
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Including all things as games: inclusive is the alternative I guess, but is that useful?
Three Month Giant Gonzo S/Mashup Ben Abraham 2009
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Just being nice and inclusive is a fantasy and does not work.
Bush Says No to Space Cooperation With China - Update - NASA Watch 2008
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Next, each of the six days from January 25 to January 30 inclusive is divided at noon.
Did You Know? January's weather in Mexico forecasts the rest of the year 2008
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