Exclusive
Exclusive adjective - Belonging only to the one person, unit, or group named.
Usage example: residents of the apartment complex have exclusive use of the pool
Public
Public adjective - Freely available for use or participation by all.
Usage example: a public swimming pool
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
- This was of course in addition to all the usual things one expects a public school (a school open to the paying public as opposed to a private school, which was more exclusive) to do.
Source: Strawman U - They currently own copyrights to the score of the movie and have secured the exclusive film rights to its literary basis, "The Greatest Gift" (which has not fallen into the public domain).
Source: Public Domain Character -
For the reviews that weren't of public domain films, the YouTube release would instead feature a "Monster Madness Rerun", a video from a previous year that was formerly exclusive to Cinemassacre.
Source: Creator / James Rolfe
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Public and Exclusive. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/exclusive/public
Exclusive & Public. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/exclusive/public>.
Public or Exclusive. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/exclusive/public.
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