Meanings
alternative excludible · alternative exclusible
- not comparableAble to be excluded.
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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 - not comparableeconomicsTo which access can be restricted to only paying customers.
Air is not an excludable good: it is available to everybody for free.
plural excludables · alternative excludible · alternative exclusible
- 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 deportables
1992, Asian Americans and the Supreme Court: A Documentary History, page 90
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