simple past tense and past participle of include
"The final report included all the data we had collected during our fieldwork last month."
In plain English: To include something means to add it as part of a group or plan.
"The price included breakfast and drinks."
Usage: Use included to indicate that something was part of a whole group or set at a specific time in the past. It functions as the simple past tense for actions completed before now and as the past participle when paired with auxiliary verbs like "has" or "was.
Derived from Old French inclure, which comes from Latin inclusus (past participle of includere), the term originally meant to shut in or enclose within boundaries. It entered English with the sense of containing something as part of a whole.