Exempt

Definitions: Exempt

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; "a beauty somehow exempt from the aging process"; "exempt from jury duty"; "only the very poorest citizens should be exempt from income taxes".

2. (of goods or funds) not subject to taxation; "the funds of nonprofit organizations are nontaxable"; "income exempt from taxation".

Verb

1. Grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to; "She exempted me from the exam".

2. Grant exemption or release to; "Please excuse me from this class.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "exempt" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Exempt

Exemption

Adjective: exempt from, devoid of, without, unpossessed of, unblest with; immune from.

Noun: exemption, freedom, irresponsibility, immunity, liberty, license, release, exoneration, excuse, dispensation, absolution, franchise, renunciation, discharge; exculpation. Verb: be exempt; Adjective:

Exempt, release, acquit, discharge, quitclaim, remise, remit; free, set at liberty, let off, pass over, spare, excuse, dispense with, give dispensation, license; stretch a point; absolve; (forgive); exonerate; (exculpate); save the necessity.

Adjective: exempt, free, immune, at liberty, scot-free; released; Verb: unbound, unencumbered; irresponsible, unaccountable, not answerable; excusable.

Freedom

Exempt; freed; freeborn; autonomous, freehold, allodial; gratis; eleutherian.

Hope

Unsuspecting, unsuspicious; fearless, free from fear, free from suspicion, free from distrust, free from despair, exempt from fear, exempt from suspicion, exempt from distrust, exempt from despair;

Loss

Verb: lose; incur a loss, experience a loss, meet with a loss; miss; mislay, let slip, allow to slip through the fingers; be without; (exempt) a; forfeit.

Simpleness

Free from, exempt from; exclusive.

Crosswords: Exempt

French (enfranchises, exempt, frees, liberates, libs, unshackles).

The church is exempt from your town statutes, Taylor. (Gilmore Girls; writing credit: Povl Erik Carstensen; Sebastian Dorset)

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Books

• Legislative hearing on draft legislation to expand VA/DOD sharing authority; refine VA nurse locality pay; authorize third party reimbursements for CHAMPVA beneficiaries; exempt state home residents' work-therapy earnings as income for purposes of VA bene (reference)

• Employee Compensation in Texas/1990 Survey of Nonexempt Compensation in Texas,1990 Survey of Fringe Benefits,1990 Survey of Exempt Compensation (reference)

• Exempt Vs. Non-Exempt: A Guide for California Employers (reference)

• Tax Exempt Securities and the Surtax (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Fixed Income Fund Performance Analysis : Tax Exempt (reference)

• Survey Of Exempt Compensation - East Central Ed (reference)

• Tax Exempt Financing (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

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Candidates from the exempt brigade.Credit: Library of Congress.

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No body, no power, can exempt them from the obligations of that eternal law. (Second Treatise of Government)

Goods in transit shall be exempt from all customs or other similar duties. (reference)

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The very best of us are not altogether exempt from some tinge of egotism.

Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head; And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in the stones, and good in every thing.

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Business

Also, they were exempt from paying taxes. (references)

It will also be exempt from the S$10,000 used-car registration surcharge. (references)

Retail stores that are smaller than 3,000 square meters are exempt from registering. (references)

Children

Congo

Persons with disabilities are exempt from some civil laws, such as paying some taxes or in some cases paying customs duties. (references)

Malaysia

All equipment designed specifically for use by persons with disabilties would also be exempt from all import duties and sales taxes. (references)

Egypt

By law all businesses must designate 5 percent of their jobs for persons with disabilities, who are exempt from normal literacy requirements. (references)

Civil Liberties

Cyprus

No other religious organization is tax exempt or receives subsidies. (references)

Cameroon

Rural radio stations must submit an application to broadcast but are exempt from fees. (references)

Peru

All work-related earnings of Catholic priests and bishops are exempt from income taxes. (references)

Economic History

Russia

Certain categories of goods and services are exempt. (references)

Eritrea

Exports are exempt from export duties and sales taxes. (references)

Indonesia

Goods for export would have remained exempt from these taxes. (references)

Human Rights

Armenia

There were credible reports of improper, forced conscription of ethnic Armenian refugees from Azerbaijan, who by law are exempt from military service. (references)

China

Minors and pregnant women are expressly exempt from the death sentence, and only those theft cases involving banks or museums warrant capital punishment. (references)

Korea

Model prisoners who have served more than one-third of their sentences are allowed unsupervised meetings with visitors and are exempt from mail censorship. (references)

Political Economy

JORDAN

Re-invested profits are exempt from income tax. (references)

Sudan

Registered religious groups are exempt from most taxes. (references)

SAUDI ARABIA

Wholly-owned family businesses and family-run farms are exempt from these rules. (references)

Trade

Lebanon

These products are exempt from customs duties. (references)

Brazil

Brazilian exports are exempt from the IPI tax. (references)

Bangladesh

Certain products are exempt from the value-added tax. (references)

Travel

Turkey

Catalogs, brochures, pamphlets, and similar advertising materials are exempt from customs duty. (references)

Egypt

Personal use items such as jewelry, laptop computers and electronic equipment are exempt from customs fees. (references)

Saudi Arabia

Members of airline crews, infants (under the age of 2), and passengers in transit less than 24 hours are exempt from paying this fee. (references)

Worker Rights

India

These zones are not exempt from labor legislation. (references)

Romania

Consent of a trafficked person does not exempt the trafficker from liability. (references)

Cameroon

Free trade zone employers are exempt from some provisions of the Labor Code but must respect all internationally recognized worker rights. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "exempt": exempt a ♦ exempt from ♦ exempt from distrust ♦ exempt from excise ♦ exempt from fear ♦ exempt from suspicion ♦ exempt from tax ♦ exempt from taxation ♦ exempt smb. from blame ♦ exempt smb. from smth. ♦ potentially exempt transfer ♦ tax exempt. Additional references.

Ending with "exempt": customs-exempt, draft-exempt, non-exempt, partially-exempt, partly-exempt, tax-exempt.

Containing "exempt": tax-exempt tax-free.

Albanian

i shkarkuar, i lirë (at ease, available, brummagem, cheap, clear, disengaged, disposable, empty, fetterless, footloose, free, frugal, inexpensive, loose, native, off, off duty, off-hour, open, quit, scotfree, twopenny, unattached, unbound, uncostly, uninhibited, unoccupied, vacant), i çliruar (released, unstuck). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مستثنى من, ‏معفى (free from, immune), ‏عفا (absolve, efface, excuse, forgive, frank, pardon), ‏المعفى. (various references)

Bulgarian 

свободен (at large, available, disengaged, disposable, easeful, easy, facile, familiar, fetterless, floating, fluent, footloose, free, glib, go-as-you-please, immune, independent, intestate, leisure, loose, neglige, off, open, otiose, quit, spare, tripping, unbending, unbound, unbuttoned, uncommitted, unconstrained, unforced, unreserved, unrestricted, unstudied, untenanted, untrammelled, vacant, void, wide), конфискуван (forfeit, sequestered), освобождавам (discharge, disencumber, disengage, dispense, emancipate, enfranchise, extricate, free, give off, let loose, liberate, loose, make free, manumit, redeem, release, remit, rescue, set free, turn off, unbar, unbind, unburden, uncork, unfasten, unhand, unloose, unpen, unshackle, vacate), освободен (freed, quit, released). (various references)

Chinese 

豁免 . (various references)

Czech

zproštìný, osvobozený (liberated), osbobozený. (various references)

Danish

fritaget for. (various references)

Dutch

ontslaan (discharge, dismiss, fire, probationer official, sack, to discharge, to dismiss, to fire, to sack). (various references)

Esperanto

sendevigi. (various references)

Farsi 

مستثنی , معاف کردن (Dismiss, Dispense, Excuse, Frank, Remit), معاف , ازاد (Free, Gratis, Immune, Loose, Open, Patent, Unattached, Unrestrained). (various references)

Finnish

vapautettu veroista tai maksuista, vapautettu. (various references)

French

exempter (except, exclude, excuse), exempt, dispenser (except, exclude, excuse). (various references)

German

freistellen (leave up to, make available, release), befreit (deliveries, disengages, enfranchises, exempts, extricates, free, freed, liberates, libs, rids, uncages, unfetters, unshackles). (various references)

Greek 

απαλλάσσω (absolve, acquit, deliver, excuse, exonerate, extricate, relieve, rid). (various references)

Hebrew 

פטור (exemption, free, post free, quittance, release), � פטר (deceased, defunct). (various references)

Hungarian

mentes (clear, devoid, free, immune, proof, quit, void). (various references)

Indonesian

dibebaskan. (various references)

Italian

esente (clear, Except, Excluding, Exclusion, free, freely, immune, unenslaved, untrapped). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

許す (to allow, to approve, to confide in, to excuse, to exempt, to forgive, to let off, to pardon, to permit, to release), 義務�'免する (be exempt from duty duties), 免ずる (to dismiss, to exempt), 免じる (to dismiss, to exempt). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

め�"ずる (to dismiss, to exempt), め�"じる (to dismiss, to exempt), ゆるす (to allow, to approve, to confide in, to excuse, to exempt, to forgive, to let off, to pardon, to permit, to release). (various references)

Korean 

면� �하�" (Exempted). (various references)

Manx

seyrey (absolution, absolve, acquit, acquittal, affranchise, affranchisement, clear, clear from guilt, deliver, discharge, disembarrass, disencumber; exploit; clearing, disengage, dismiss, dismissal, disoblige, dispensation; exploitation, ease, emancipate, emancipation, enfranchise, exemption, exonerate, exoneration, free, justification, justify, liberate, liberation, purge, release, relieve, riddance, vindication, vindication act of). (various references)

Norwegian

frita (excuse). (various references)

Pig Latin

exemptay

Portuguese

trasladar (overwrite, transcribe), livre (bohemian, clear, disengaged, fetterlock, floating, free, idle, immunity, independent, leisurely, loose, masterly, off, quit, spare, spontaneous, unappropriated, unattached, unconstrained, unencumbered, unimpeded, unobstructed, unoccupied, unrestrained, untied, untrammelled), isento (exemption, free, immune), isentar (acquit, affranchise, Frank), dispensado. (various references)

Romanian

scuti (absolve, disengage, dispense, excuse, forgive, free, privilege, release, relieve, remit, save, spare), persoanã scutitã de taxã, absolvi (absolve, acquit, excuse, exonerate, forgive, graduate, indulge, pass out, release). (various references)

Russian 

свободный (at liberty, clear, fetterless, footloose, free, free-hand, immune, leisurely, loose, open, quit, roomy, spare, unbound, unhampered, uninhibited, unoccupied, unstuck, vacant), освобожденный (free, freed, released), изъятый. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

osloboditi (absolve, acquit, affranchise, deliver, disembarrass, disengage, exculpate, free, let loose, let off, liberate, make free, release, relieve, rid, set free, unbind, unleash, unloose, unyoke, vindicate), oslobođen (disengaged, free, released). (various references)

Spanish

exento. (various references)

Swedish

fritagen (exempted, free), frita (acquite, exculpate, exonerate, release, vindicate). (various references)

Thai

ผู้ไ�"้รับการยกเว้น, ที่ไ�"้รับการยกเว้น, ยกเว้น (but, except). (various references)

Turkish

serbest (at large, at liberty, cavalier, disengaged, easy, fetterless, footloose, free, freehearted, freewheeling, go-as-you-please, in the clear, independent, latitudinarian, leisure, liberal, loose, open, permissive, quit, unattached, unbound, unchecked, unconfined, unconstrained, unencumbered, unengaged, unfettered, unhampered, unrestrained, unrestricted, unshackled, untrammelled), muaf tutmak (acquit, discharge, excuse, exonerate, free, immunize, prune, release, rescue), muaf (exempted, free, privileged), özgür (at large, at liberty, free, independent, latitudinarian, unfettered), çürüğe çıkarmak (invalid, invalid out, scrap, throw on the scrap heap). (various references)

Ukranian 

вільний (broad, devoid, disengaged, disposable, emancipated, fetterless, for hire, free, leisurely, licentious, loose, odd, off, open, out, quit, unbound), вилучати (exclude, withdraw), виділяти (accent, accentuate, apportion, appropriate, discriminate, evolve, excrete, exude, give off, ooze, point out, secrete, signalize, single out, singularize, tab, throw off), незалежний (autonomic, detached, free, freelance, independent, non-affiliated, self sufficient, self-supporting), звільняти (absolve, acquit, affranchise, avoid, bag, cashier, clear, defecate, disband, disencumber, disengage, dismiss, ease, eject, emancipate, enfranchise, exonerate, free, let out, loose, manumit, purify, release, remit, rescue, rid, set free, supersede, unfetter, unshackle, untie, vacate). (various references)

immunis, inmunem, inmunes, inmunis. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "exempt": exempted, exempting, exemption, exemptions, exempts. (additional references)

Words ending with "exempt": nonexempt. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Exempt" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: excempt, execpt, exemp, exept, exerp, exerpt, exmpt, lexomat. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: meet, mete, teem, temp.

-3 letters: eme, met, pee, pet, tee.

-4 letters: em, et, ex, me, pe.

+1 letter: exempts.

+2 letters: exempted.

+3 letters: exempting, exemption, expertism, extempore, metroplex, nonexempt.

+4 letters: complexest, exemptions, experiment, expertisms, extemporal.

+5 letters: exemplarity, experiments, extemporary, extemporise, extemporize, metroplexes, multiplexed, multiplexer, multiplexes.

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