Exclude

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 局 (Bureau), less common than 守 (Protect).

A hill on the left has surplus material on the right -- the surplus dirt from the hillside gets excluded and thrown away.

In words

除くのぞく to remove,to exclude,to exceptN3

掃除そうじする to clean, to sweepN5

除外じょがい exception;exclusionN1

除 is rank 477 of 2,608 in published Japanese.