Usually means: Prevents something from happening; excludes.
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  1. precludes: Merriam-Webster
  2. precludes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. precludes: Vocabulary.com
  4. precludes: Wordnik
  5. precludes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. precludes: Wiktionary
  7. precludes: Dictionary.com
  8. precludes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. precludes: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. precludes: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. precludes: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (preclude)

▸ verb:  (transitive) Remove the possibility of; rule out; prevent or exclude; to make impossible.
▸ Also see preclude


Opposite:
allows, permits, enables, facilitates

Types:
bars, prevents, forbids, hinders, discourages, deters, more...

Adjectives:
other, such, second, good, available, wise, white, necessary, general, savage, variable

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Opposite:
allows, permits, enables, facilitates

Types:
bars, prevents, forbids, hinders, discourages, deters, more...

Adjectives:
other, such, second, good, available, wise, white, necessary, general, savage, variable




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