0 present 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.
Such characteristics could be related to the host response mechanism, precluding helminth establishment and survival.
Richness of the base provides that the set of input representations is universal, precluding any such language-specific restrictions.
These officially sanctioned precedents served the guilds' own exclusionary goals by precluding possible popular resentment.
Also, both studies were cross-sectional, precluding the examination of outcomes over time.
Furthermore, both were cross-sectional investigations, thereby precluding any examinations of the course of productive sound change in acquisition.
Since only eight samples were available, the number of environmental variables exceeded the number of samples in every case, thus initially precluding a constrained ordination.
In other cases, however, adequate cooling conditions cannot be found, precluding structure determination.
However, once dynamically bound, a variable's definition is fixed, precluding rebinding for marshalling or update.
