MEANING
Not limited to a single person, group, thing or possibility, and not excluding others.
Use it for
describing rights shared with other parties; clarifying that categories may overlap; allowing more than one explanation or option; distinguishing nonexclusive access from sole entitlementMakes clear that access or one possibility need not exclude others. Writing functions: Comparison / Contrast.
Words that belong together
- nonexclusive license
- nonexclusive rights
- nonexclusive categories
On the page
The archive granted a nonexclusive license, allowing the images to be used by other publishers.
The analysis treats the proposed explanations as nonexclusive rather than forcing every case into one category.
Word forms
- Base
- nonexclusive
Usage notes
Normally non-gradable. Also non-exclusive; hyphenation does not create another entry. Common with rights, licenses, categories or alternatives. Register: formal. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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