0 something that prevents something or makes it impossible, or the act of preventing something or making it impossible:
The preclusion of heart transplantation leaves mechanical support as the only option.
Stability in family life does not imply preference for married, heterosexual couples or the preclusion of other arrangements.
To do this user preferences for information can be acquired via relevance feedback and represented in the form of defaults and preclusions.
The preclusion of epizoological risks, such as the emergence of asymptomatic carriers of wild rabies virus, is also of major importance.
First, with an exogenously given world price, there is an automatic preclusion of welfare effects for the trade partner, so that prospects for mutually advantageous trade cannot be addressed.
If a firm wants to submit a tender, there is no preclusion for future years.
But, easy to understand or not, any such preclusion is a profound and tragic mistake.
The only question is whether considerations of great power can be urged which render that preclusion and the imposition of that disability defensible.
