Definition of "preclusive" []

• Serving to preclude. (adjective)

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• ""US would have a good sense and the cleverness and the ability to enter the black market and engage is what we used to call preclusive purchase...if NK thinks it can sell a nuclear weapon for $1bn, we ought to be in there offering $5bn" - Schelling quoted the outbidding of natural resources in WWII, I would add the successful control of balck market in ex-USSR states, and that it is cheaper to buy out North Korea today than tomorrow"
• ""preclusive," and COMFORCE agreed to make certain disclosures to its stockholders relating to the merger, in addition to the information contained in its definitive proxy statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission the "SEC" on"
• "Should petitioner pursue a plenary action in federal court without a notice of claim, and should the federal District Court determine that no notice of claim is required, there would still remain a question of whether this Court's determination would have any preclusive effect in federal court."