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In the last decades, the so-called ``inclusion principle'' has received considerable attention in the field of complex and large-scale systems, especially when dealing with linear time-invariant systems, since it provides an appropriate framework to develop diverse approaches to both analysis and design. Here the ``inclusion principle'' is applied to linear discrete-time time-varying dynamical systems so that the techniques already used for the continuous case cannot be used anymore. Thus, after defining the concepts of ``expansion'' and ``contraction'' (Section 2) along with those of ``aggregation'' and ``restriction'' (Section 3) associated with a pair of linear discrete-time time-varying systems, a ``composition property'' is given in Section 4 (Theorem 4), becoming the most relevant contribution of the paper, whose general content seems to show an extremely theoretical component. Certainly, applications of the exposed methodology would be welcome.