exclusive

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
exclusive/ɪkˈskluːsɪv/

▶adjective

• 1 excluding or not admitting other things.

  ■ unable to exist or be true if something else exists or is true: mutually exclusive options.

  ■ (of terms) excluding all but what is specified.

• 2 restricted to the person, group, or area concerned.

  ■ not published or broadcast elsewhere.

• 3 high-class and expensive; select.

• 4 (exclusive of) not including.

▶noun an exclusive story or broadcast.

– derivatives
exclusively adverb,
exclusiveness noun,
exclusivity noun.

– origin C15: from med. L. exclusivus, from L. excludere (see exclude).