From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishsocial exclusionˌsocial exˈclusion noun [uncountable] British English the situation that results when people suffer the effects of a combination of problems such as unemployment, crime, and bad housing, and have very little chance of being able to improve their lives efforts to combat poverty and social exclusion
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social exclusion• So the decline continued until parts of our cities were ghettos of deprivation, unemployment, poor housing and social exclusion.• The social arena: housing policy as a response to problems of poverty and social exclusion.• They have all suffered grievously: shame, stigma and extreme social exclusion.• However, when the left won office it was faced with the challenge of high levels of social exclusion and polarisation.• With this reduction of social activities came a sense of social exclusion. 