from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
adjective Taking a great deal or everything within its scope; comprehensive.
adjective Including the specified extremes or limits as well as the area between them.
adjective Linguistics Of, relating to, or being a first person plural pronoun that includes the addressee, such as we in the sentence If you're hungry, we could order some pizza.
from The Century Dictionary.
Inclosing; encircling; comprehensive; in cluding: with of.
Included in the number or sum; comprehending the stated limit or extremes: as, from Monday to Saturday inclusive (that is, taking in both Monday and Saturday).
noun A term of inclusion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
adjective Inclosing; encircling; surrounding.
adjective Comprehending the stated limit or extremes; ; -- opposed to exclusive.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
adjective including (almost) everything within its scope
adjective including the extremes as well as the area between
adjective linguistics of, or relating to the first personpluralpronoun when including the person being addressed
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
adjective including much or everything; and especially including stated limits
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In any society, there will be situations in which sociopaths (I use this term inclusive of "sociopaths and psychopaths" indicating varying types or degrees of the disorder) tend to feel more comfortable and congregate in greater numbers than usual.
The Cato Institute's David Rittgers detects a rhetorical shift from "assault weapons," which was always an arbitrary and fuzzy category, to "military-style weapons," which he says is potentially "a term inclusive of all modern firearms in a back-door attempt to enact a new gun control scheme."
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