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October 11, 2008    DOL Home > Search / A to Z Index > Search Help > Excluding Terms   

Excluding Terms From Searches

If you have used a term with more than one meaning in a query, you may generate a results list with documents that are not relevant to your search even though they match the query term.

Minus Sign (-)

To exclude irrelevant documents from a search, you can use the minus sign (-) as part of the query.

For example, if you are looking for documents about employer-supplied benefits and a search for the term benefit produces a results list with a number of documents relating to health benefits, you can exclude those documents by issuing the following query:



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