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# barring

preposition (from the verb bar, barred, barring)

«barring» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

Barring means except for, leaving out one thing or person from what is said. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barring/#m1)

### In the lessons

in the lessons, it leaves one thing out of a list or count, as in "all the sweets, barring the sour ones".

### Examples

- Everyone came, barring Sam, who was ill. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barring/#x1)
- We can play any game, barring football. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barring/#x2)
- All the bees were friendly, barring one. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barring/#x3)

### Note

it takes one thing out of the group, so that group is one less; 'all of them barring one' means the total minus one.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «barring» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barring/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«barring» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/barring.html) on Mova free.