0 past simple and past participle of preclude --
1 to prevent something or make it impossible, or prevent someone from doing something: --
The fact that your application was not successful this time does not preclude the possibility of you applying again next time.
His contract precludes him from discussing his work with anyone outside the company.
Rather, magma accumulated sequentially at a rate and temperature that precluded complete cooling or complete melting.
Companies stifled adventuring traders, suppressed free trade, precluded training mariners, brought superfluous commodities into the realm, and caused inflation.
Merchants lamented that underpopulation precluded genuine development of abundant resources, leaving the colonies with ' treasures that we cannot cultivate due to the absence of labour'.
The current sample sizes precluded our ability to examine issues related to ethnicity.
Highly segmented land markets have precluded a more efficient reallocation of resources.
Three-domain combinations represented the final step in the analyses because the small number of cases exhibiting the high problem trajectory precluded testing four-domain combinations.
The aphoristic nature of most of the tracks, however, precluded much depth in exploring this duality.
The "not valid" designation applies to regions of the distribution where low scores precluded meaningful interpretation.
