preclude

English

Alternative forms

præclude (obsolete)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin praeclūdere.

Pronunciation

(US, UK) IPA^(key): /pɹɪˈkluːd/, /pɹiːˈkluːd/
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -uːd

Verb

preclude (third-person singular simple present precludes, present participle precluding, simple past and past participle precluded)

(transitive) Remove the possibility of; rule out; prevent or exclude; to make impossible.
It has been raining for days, but that doesn’t preclude the possibility that the skies will clear by this afternoon!
- 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], OCLC 21345056, page 15:
  "Now, own the truth,—are you not very sorry that my having been in the opposition precludes your going to the most brilliant fête of the season?"
- 1962 October, G. Freeman Allen, “The New Look in Scotland's Northern Division—II”, in Modern Railways, page 271:
  This is of unusual importance at Perth, compared with other modern yards, because the restricted scope for layout development precluded provision of a separate track as a head shunt at the southern end of the yard site. When such a facility is required, the main line has to be employed.
- 2013 August 9, Douglas Main, “Israel Outlaws Water Fluoridation”, in livescience‎, retrieved 2013-09-30:
  Israel's decision to ban fluoridation follows a vote to preclude the practice in Portland, Ore., and Wichita, Kan. It was also recently overturned in Hamilton, the fourth most populous city in New Zealand.
- 2020 June 17, David Clough, “Then and now: trains through Crewe”, in Rail, page 61:
  All the overnight trains were composed of Mk 1 vehicles that had vacuum brakes. This precluded the use of new Class 87s, which only had train air braking equipment, [...].

Derived terms

precludable
preclusive

Related terms

preclusion

Translations

rule out

Chinese:
Cantonese: 排除 (paai⁴ ceoi⁴), 杜絕 (dou⁶ zyut⁶), 防止 (fong⁴ zi²)
Mandarin: 排除 (zh) (páichú), 杜絕 (zh) (dùjué), 防止 (zh) (fángzhǐ)
Czech: vyloučit (cs) pf, zabránit (cs) pf, zamezit pf, znemožnit (cs) pf
Danish: udelukke, umuliggøre
Dutch: uitsluiten (nl), precluderen
Esperanto: malebligi, bloki, bari (eo)
Finnish: sulkea pois
French: exclure (fr)
Georgian: გამორიცხავს (gamoricxavs)
German: ausschließen (de), verhindern (de), unmöglich machen
Greek: αποκλείω (el) (apokleío)
Hungarian: kizár (hu)
Italian: precludere (it)
Latin: praeclūdō
Polish: wykluczyć (pl), wykluczać (pl)
Portuguese: excluir (pt)
Russian: предотвращать (ru) impf (predotvraščatʹ), устранять (ru) impf (ustranjatʹ), исключать (ru) impf (isključatʹ), мешать (ru) impf (mešatʹ), препятствовать (ru) impf (prepjatstvovatʹ)
Serbo-Croatian: isključiti (sh)
Slovak: znemožniť, vylúčiť, zamedziť, zabrániť, predísť
Spanish: descartar (es), excluir (es), precluir (law)
Ukrainian: унеможливлювати (uk) (unemožlyvljuvaty), робити неможливим (uk) (robyty nemožlyvym), виключати (uk) (vyključaty)

Italian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /preˈklu.de/
Rhymes: -ude
Hyphenation: pre‧clù‧de

Verb

preclude

third-person singular present indicative of precludere