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BARRING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does barring mean?
• BARRING (noun)
The noun BARRING has 1 sense:
1. the act of excluding someone by a negative vote or veto
Familiarity information: BARRING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of excluding someone by a negative vote or veto
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
barring; blackball
Hypernyms ("barring" is a kind of...):
ejection; exclusion; expulsion; riddance (the act of forcing out someone or something)
Context examples
Barring rum, his match were never seen.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Barring accidents, you should live to be a hundred.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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