0 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.
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.
Unfortunately, several factors in this case precluded a more fruitful intervention at the late stage when we were consulted.
And, before the railroad, travel was difficult enough to preclude any sort of concert circuit of touring virtuosos, even had the demand been there.
The extensive use of absorbing barriers was precluded by the nature of the experiment and resulted in rather long settling times for the basin.
This latter arrangement precludes a transjunctional incision should the infundibulum be obstructed.
The idea here is that law purports to preclude deliberations regarding the merits of applying it in any particular case.
However, the effects of other specific co-morbidity patterns remained unclear, because too few cases precluded meaningful analysis.
This precludes inter-planting during this second rainy season.
This possibility was precluded by the reassertion of these principles updated in the form of the police power.
