ex

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ex /eks/ noun [countableC usually singular]

informalSSFDIVORCE someone’s former wife, husband, girlfriend, or boyfriend 前妻；前夫；前女友；前男友

I bumped into my ex in town.

我在城里遇见了我以前的那位。

Examples from the Corpus

ex• As an ex employee, he's loyal to the company, even though it made him redundant after 34 years.• She had a husband, a great brawny brute of an ex R.A.F. pilot who knocked her about.• We also examined whether upward expansion actually occurred in the background colonic mucosa by ex vivo autoradiography.• What if I told you Nicola Schreider is my ex -fiancée?• I didn't know my ex was going to be at the party.• We might refer to this as the ex ante demand for bank lending.• In relation to such a claim the ex turpi causa defence could have had no application.• For many women, it seems, the power of the ex continues from beyond the long-filled grave of romance.

ex- /eks/ prefix

BEFOREformer and still living 以前的，前任的〔指仍然在世的〕

his ex-wife

他的前妻

an ex-England cricketer

前英格兰板球队队员

Examples from the Corpus

ex-• to be excommunicated• to exhale• Lydia is still friends with her ex-husband.• Her dad's an ex-policeman.• an ex-President• my ex-wife

From Longman Business Dictionary

exex1 /eks/ prepositionprep

1COMMERCETRANSPORTused with a price for goods to show from which place the buyer will be responsible for paying for transport of the goods

2COMMERCETRANSPORT ex dock/quay/wharf an ex dock, ex quay, or ex wharf price is one where the seller is responsible for taking the goods off the ship in a particular port, and making them available there, but not for transporting them anywhere

3COMMERCETRANSPORTTAX ex quay duty paid if a price is ex quay duty paid, it is ex quay with the seller responsible for paying any import taxes

4COMMERCETRANSPORTTAX ex quay duties on buyer’s account if a price is ex quay duties on buyer’s account, it is ex quay with the buyer responsible for paying any import taxes

5COMMERCETRANSPORT ex factory/works an ex factory or ex works price is one where the seller makes goods available to the buyer at the seller’s factory, and the buyer is responsible for paying for them to be transported to where they are needed

6COMMERCETRANSPORT ex ship an ex ship price is one where the seller will make the goods available on a ship in a particular port, and the buyer is responsible for paying for the goods to be put on land and transported to where they are needed

7COMMERCETRANSPORT ex warehouse an ex warehouse price is one where the seller makes the goods available at a particular warehouse, and the buyer is responsible for arranging and paying for the goods to be transported to where they are needed

8FINANCE used with a share price or bond price to show that the price does not include particular advantages that have been or will soon be available and that might be included, but which instead go the seller → compare cum

9FINANCE ex all an ex all price for shares is one without any of the advantages that have been or will soon be available, for example DIVIDENDs or RIGHTS ISSUEs

10FINANCE ex capitalization (also ex capitalisation British EnglishBrE) if shares are sold ex capitalization, the buyer does not have the right to a BONUS ISSUE that has been made

11FINANCE ex coupon/interest if bonds are sold ex coupon or ex interest, the buyer does not have the right to a particular interest payment

Debentures were quoted 6 5/8 points lower at 113 3/8, reflecting the fact the bonds went ex coupon yesterday.

12FINANCE ex dividend if shares or bonds are sold ex dividend, the buyer does not have the right to a particular DIVIDEND payment, or with bonds, to a particular interest payment

Shares in the firm, which issued a profits warning last month, are expected to fall further today when the stock goes ex dividend.

13FINANCE ex interest when the price of bonds is ex interest, the person who buys them will not receive the next interest payment on them

14FINANCE ex rights if shares are sold ex rights, the buyer does not have the right to new shares in a particular RIGHTS ISSUE

The shares, traded ex rights, finished SFr17 higher at 1,718.

→ see also ex VAT

exex2

abbreviation for excluding, used to show that an amount is not included

The desk retails for £349 ex VAT.

Origin ex

(1800-1900) ex-

ex-

Latin ex “out of, from”