0 past simple and past participle of preclude
1 to prevent something or make it impossible, or prevent someone from doing something:
His contract precludes him from discussing his work with anyone outside the company.
The fact that your application was not successful this time does not preclude the possibility of you applying again next time.
However, the great length of the outer enclosures and the many causeways that crossed them surely precluded their use for defence against determined enemies.
This possibility was precluded by the reassertion of these principles updated in the form of the police power.
However, the effects of other specific co-morbidity patterns remained unclear, because too few cases precluded meaningful analysis.
The extensive use of absorbing barriers was precluded by the nature of the experiment and resulted in rather long settling times for the basin.
Unfortunately, several factors in this case precluded a more fruitful intervention at the late stage when we were consulted.
Physical motion is precluded here, and there do not seem to be any connotations of intensity or negative attitude (see note 11).
The enormous task of analysing a newspaper's content in such detail precluded a larger sample.
The "not valid" designation applies to regions of the distribution where low scores precluded meaningful interpretation.
