EXEMPT • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Exempt

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/ɪgzˈɛmpt/ Listen

Exempt

adjective

1.

(of persons) freed from or not subject to an obligation or liability (as e.g. taxes) to which others or other things are subject. "Exempt from jury duty" , "Only the very poorest citizens should be exempt from income taxes"

2.

(of goods or funds) not subject to taxation. Synonym: nontaxable. "Income exempt from taxation"

verb

(past & past part. exempted; pres. part. exempting)

1.

Grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to. Synonyms: free, relieve.

2.

Grant exemption or release to. Synonyms: excuse, let off, relieve.

See more definitions of Exempt...

See images of 'Exempt'

Antonyms of 'Exempt'

Etymology of 'Exempt'

Related searches:

tax-exempt security

WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University

Share |

"Exempt" Quotes from Famous Books

... friend's prowess, that he might aspire to the hand of any lady, that one retiring, modest-browed girl had not been thought of by him. A man in talking to another man about women is always supposed to consider those belonging to himself as exempt from the incidents of the conversation. The dearest friends do not talk to each other about their sisters when they have once left school; and a man in such a position as that now taken by Graham has ...

— Orley Farm • Anthony Trollope

... stick through the air, and Bruff crouched at his feet, grovelling in the sand, and holding up his wounded and bandaged paw as he whined piteously, as if that injury were sufficient to exempt him from being beaten. ...

— Mother Carey's Chicken - Her Voyage to the Unknown Isle • George Manville Fenn

... to think that these diseases should be confined to the poor—that a man should be exposed to cholera, typhus, and a host of attendant diseases, simply because he is born into the world an artisan; while the rich, by the mere fact of money, are exempt from such curses, except when they come in contact with those whom they call on Sunday "their brethren," and on week ...

— Yeast: A Problem • Charles Kingsley

... churchmen, as usual, in the Philippines, was not always to be well directed; for the merciless Inquisition having established itself at Manilla, commenced its terrible career. No one was safe, none were exempt from its powers; its emissaries penetrated even into the palace of the Governor. Moderation in religion, or remissness in its strictest observances, became crimes, punishable by the severest discipline of that fearful and cruel establishment. All attempts, ...

— Recollections of Manilla and the Philippines - During 1848, 1849 and 1850 • Robert Mac Micking

... entitled by the terms of that will to be regarded both legally and socially as his representative. This you all know, but it is my way to make everything clear as I proceed. A lawyer's trick, no doubt. I do not pretend to be entirely exempt from such." ...

— The House in the Mist • Anna Katharine Green

Copyright © 2025 Free-Translator.com