Beat \Beat\, n.
   1. One that beats, or surpasses, another or others; as, the
      beat of him. [Colloq.]
      [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

   2. The act of one that beats a person or thing; as:
      (a) (Newspaper Cant) The act of obtaining and publishing a
          piece of news by a newspaper before its competitors;
          also, the news itself; -- also called a scoop or
          exclusive.
          [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

                It's a beat on the whole country. --Scribner's
                                                  Mag.
          [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
      (b) (Hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a
          tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those
          so engaged, collectively. "Driven out in the course of
          a beat." --Encyc. of Sport.
          [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

                Bears coming out of holes in the rocks at the
                last moment, when the beat is close to them.
                                                  --Encyc. of
                                                  Sport.
          [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
      (c) (Fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
          [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

	

	Exclusive \Ex*clu"sive\, n.
   One of a coterie who exclude others; one who from real of
   affected fastidiousness limits his acquaintance to a select
   few.
   [1913 Webster]

	

	Exclusive \Ex*clu"sive\a. [Cf. F. exclusif.]
   1. Having the power of preventing entrance; debarring from
      participation or enjoyment; possessed and enjoyed to the
      exclusion of others; as, exclusive bars; exclusive
      privilege; exclusive circles of society.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Not taking into the account; excluding from consideration;
      -- opposed to inclusive; as, five thousand troops,
      exclusive of artillery.
      [1913 Webster]

	

	exclusive
    adj 1: not divided or shared with others; "they have exclusive
           use of the machine"; "sole rights of publication" [syn:
           exclusive, sole(a)]
    2: excluding much or all; especially all but a particular group
       or minority; "exclusive clubs"; "an exclusive restaurants and
       shops" [ant: inclusive]
    3: not divided among or brought to bear on more than one object
       or objective; "judging a contest with a single eye"; "a
       single devotion to duty"; "undivided affection"; "gained
       their exclusive attention" [syn: single(a), undivided,
       exclusive]
    n 1: a news report that is reported first by one news
         organization; "he got a scoop on the bribery of city
         officials" [syn: exclusive, scoop]

	

	153 Moby Thesaurus words for "exclusive":
   Olympian, a certain, absolute, aloof, an, any, any one, apart from,
   aristocratic, arrogant, article, atomic, barring, beat,
   budget of news, chic, chilly, choice, chosen, clannish, classy,
   cliquish, closed, cold, concentrated, confining, contemptuous,
   contumelious, cool, copy, dashing, debarring, defining, definitive,
   detached, disdainful, distant, either, elect, elegant, elite,
   ethnocentric, except for, excepting, exceptional, excluding,
   exclusive of, exclusory, fashionable, fixed, forbidding, frigid,
   frosty, haughty, high-hat, icy, ignoring, inaccessible,
   inadmissible, incompatible, individual, indivisible, inhibitive,
   inhibitory, inimical, insular, integral, interdictive,
   interdictory, irreducible, limitary, limitative, limited, limiting,
   lone, modish, monadic, monistic, narrow, news item, not counting,
   offish, omitting, one, only, parochial, pick, picked, piece,
   preclusive, preferred, prescriptive, preventive, private,
   privileged, prohibiting, prohibitive, prohibitory, proscriptive,
   remote, removed, repressive, restricted, restricting, restrictive,
   scoop, scornful, seclusive, segregative, select, selected,
   selective, separative, simple, single, singular, smart, sneering,
   sniffy, snobbish, snobby, snooty, snotty, sole, solid, solitary,
   spot news, standoff, standoffish, story, stylish, supercilious,
   suppressive, swank, swish, tony, toploftical, toplofty, trendy,
   unanalyzable, unapproachable, undistracted, undivided, uniform,
   unique, unitary, unshared, unswerving, whole, with-it, withdrawn,
   withering, xenophobic

	

	EXCLUSIVE, rights. Debarring one from participating in a thing. An exclusive 
right or privilege, is one granted to a person to do a thing, and forbidding 
all others to do the same. A patent right or copyright, are of this kind. 
	

	EXCLUSIVE, computation of time. Shut out; not included. As when an act is to 
be done within a certain time, as ten days from a particular time, one day 
is to be included and the other excluded. Vide Hob. 139; Cowp. 714; Lofft, 
276; Dougl. 463; 2 Mod. 280; Sav. 124; 3 ]Penna. Rep. 200; 1 Serg. & Rawle, 
43; 3 B. & A. 581; Com. Dig. Temps, A; 3 East, 407; Com. Dig. Estates, G 8; 
2 Chit. Pr. 69, 147.