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/ɪgzˈɛmpʃən/ /ɪgzˈɛmʃən/ Listen

Exemption

noun

Immunity from an obligation or duty. Synonym: freedom.

A deduction allowed to a taxpayer because of his status (having certain dependents or being blind or being over 65 etc.).

An act exempting someone. Synonyms: granting immunity, immunity.

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"Exemption" Quotes from Famous Books

... educational measures. The problem of education in a democratic society is to do away with the dualism and to construct a course of studies which makes thought a guide of free practice for all and which makes leisure a reward of accepting responsibility for service, rather than a state of exemption from it. ...

— Democracy and Education • John Dewey

... of Ulster Carson gave unhesitating support to the Government. He and his colleagues from Ulster had always voted against the exemption of Ireland from the Military Service Acts. It was true, no doubt, as the Nationalists jeeringly maintained, that conscription was no more desired in Ulster than in any other part of the United Kingdom. Of course it was not; it was liked nowhere. But ...

— Ulster's Stand For Union • Ronald McNeill

... of land-culture were reduced by taking all the "unearned increment" in taxes, there would simply be a redistribution of industry until the profits of land-culture, less taxes and without chances from increasing value, were equal to the profits of other pursuits under exemption from taxation. ...

— What Social Classes Owe to Each Other • William Graham Sumner

... authorities. On the day I left the city the daily paper contained an announcement of lectures on hygiene to women on three successive days, "the chief of police to be present." This paper was demanding the exemption of students from the bicycle tax, the rate of which ...

— The Foundations of Japan • J.W. Robertson Scott

... has been noted before, were the very People that began the outcry against this Demand, and so specious were the Pretences they made, that they drew in the very Crolians themselves upon the pretence of Liberty, and Exemption from Arbitrary Methods of Government to oppose ...

— The Consolidator • Daniel Defoe

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