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nonexclusive

nonexclusive

1 4.9
Open to more than one person or group at the same time
  • adjective
  • /ˌnɒnɪkˈskluːsɪv/
translation icon : no exclusivo
  • The artist offered a nonexclusive agreement, allowing multiple galleries to display her work.
  • nonexclusive license

Examples

  • The debtor in the case, Catapult Entertainment, moved to keep a nonexclusive patent license as part of its reorganization plan.

    Academic text (2001)

  • If affection is "indefinite" in this memoir, it is largely because Sassoon characterizes it as a diffuse and nonexclusive quality.

    Academic text (1994)

  • In fact, their nonexclusive proposal could result in unstable rates through much higher fees with no rate mitigation.

    Blog text (5)

  • The U.S. government has the right to retain a nonexclusive, royalty-free license in and to the copyright covering this paper.

    Academic text (1991)

  • Another nonexclusive possibility is that the SEC recognizes certain chromatin profiles.

    Academic text (2018)

  • If Turtle Beach failed to pay the minimum royalty payments, Parametric had the right to convert the gaming license to nonexclusive.

    Academic text (2017)

  • ARS granted about 40 nonexclusive licenses to make, use, or sell the absorptive polymer.

    Academic text (1996)

  • In total, Apple could pay $135 million (38% of the total acquisition price) to acquire a nonexclusive license to the New Technologies regardless of whether the acquisition went through.

    Academic text (2017)

  • The 1952 Act contains a definition of "members of the professions," but that definition is a nonexclusive listing of some professions, e.g., teaching, engineering, and medicine.

    Academic text (1990)

  • Although ARS has always encouraged scientists to file patents and companies to license them, the agency was then limited to granting only nonexclusive licenses to businesses.

    Academic text (1996)

Synonyms

nonselective
vsnonexclusive
1 5.1

Not limited to one group or type

is open to multiple participants or options rather than excluding others

Antonyms

exclusive
399 5.4

Only for one person, group, or purpose and not shared

How Exclusive

exclusive
399 5.4
restricted
18 3.9
selective
118 4.3
nonexclusive
1 4.9
open
579 1.0
inclusive
88 4.1

Surface Forms

nonexclusive positive

Morphology

nonexclusive = exclusive (transparent) = non + exclusive

The productive negating prefix 'non-' straightforwardly reverses the adjectival meaning of 'exclusive', yielding 'not exclusive'.

Etymology

Nonexclusive comes from non- meaning 'not' and exclusive meaning 'only for some' or 'not open to others'. So nonexclusive means 'not limited to one person or group', open to more people or possibilities.