0 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.
1 to prevent something or make it impossible:
Although your application was not accepted, it doesn’t preclude the possibility of your applying again later.
The design of the current study precluded us from examining how the development of temperament may influence trajectories of symptomatology in early childhood.
The use of a language of a balanced constitution therefore does not preclude the articulation of political differences.
This does not preclude the possibility that quotatives serve rather different purposes than other complementizers.
However, the great length of the outer enclosures and the many causeways that crossed them surely precluded their use for defence against determined enemies.
Atrioventricular nodal block, therefore, should preclude the development of this common type of tachyarrhythmia.
So, even if some exercises of the will are such that their outcomes are predetermined, that does not preclude the viability of a free-will defence.
Furthermore, the existence of a developed system of state welfare does not preclude, and indeed may promote, a vibrant voluntary sector.
This possibility was precluded by the reassertion of these principles updated in the form of the police power.
