Meaning of EXEMPT
| Pronunciation: | | ig'zempt
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- [adj] (of goods or funds) not subject to taxation; "the funds of nonprofit organizations are nontaxable"; "income exempt from taxation"
- [adj] (of persons) freed from or not subject to an obligation or liability (as e.g. taxes) to which others or other things are subject; "a beauty somehow exempt from the aging process"; "exempt from jury duty"; "only the very poorest citizens should be exempt from income taxes"
- [v] grant exemption or release to; "Please excuse me from this class"
- [v] grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to; "She exempted me from the exam"
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| | Synonyms: | | duty-free, excuse, excused, free, immune, let off, nontaxable, privileged, relieve, relieve, tax-exempt, tax-free, unratable, untaxed |
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| | Antonyms: | | apply, enforce, implement, nonexempt, taxable | | |
| | See Also: | | absolve, deregulate, derestrict, dispense, exempt, forgive, frank, free, justify, spare | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Ex*empt"\, a. [F. exempt, L. exemptus, p. p. of eximere
to take out, remove, free; ex out + emere to buy, take. Cf.
{Exon}, {Redeem}.]
1. Cut off; set apart. [Obs.]
Corrupted, and exempt from ancient gentry. --Shak.
2. Extraordinary; exceptional. [Obs.] --Chapman.
3. Free, or released, from some liability to which others are
subject; excepted from the operation or burden of some
law; released; free; clear; privileged; -- (with from):
not subject to; not liable to; as, goods exempt from
execution; a person exempt from jury service.
True nobility is exempt from fear. --Shak.
T is laid on all, not any one exempt. --Dryden.
\Ex*empt"\, n.
1. One exempted or freed from duty; one not subject.
2. One of four officers of the Yeomen of the Royal Guard,
having the rank of corporal; an Exon. [Eng.]
\Ex*empt"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Exempted}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Exempting}.] [F. exempter. See {Exempt}, a.]
1. To remove; to set apart. [Obs.] --Holland.
2. To release or deliver from some liability which others are
subject to; to except or excuse from he operation of a
law; to grant immunity to; to free from obligation; to
release; as, to exempt from military duty, or from jury
service; to exempt from fear or pain.
Death So snatched will not exempt us from the pain
We are by doom to pay. --Milton.
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