exclusive (adj.) (1) (excl)

With reference to PRONOUNS, a term used (in contrast with INCLUSIVE) to refer to a first-PERSON role where the addressee is not included along with the speaker, e.g. exclusive we = ‘me and others but not you’.

In SEMANTICS, a term derived from formal logic (in contrast with INCLUSIVE) to refer to a type of DISJUNCTION: in an exclusive interpretation, the disjunction is true only if one or other of the PROPOSITIONS is true. In Either X is happening or Y is happening, it is not the case that both X and Y could be happening at the same time.