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Answer for the clue "Not liable to ", 6 letters:
exempt

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Word definitions for exempt in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to; "She exempted me from the exam" [syn: relieve , free ] [ant: enforce ] grant exemption or release to; "Please excuse me from this class" [syn: excuse , relieve , let off ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 free from a duty or obligation. 2 (context of an employee or his position English) Not entitled to overtime pay when working overtime. 3 (context obsolete English) Cut off; set apart. 4 (context obsolete English) Extraordinary; exceptional. n. 1 One who ...

Usage examples of exempt.

Court was unable to concede that a Georgia statute levying on inhabitants of the State a poll tax payment of which is made a prerequisite for voting but exempting females who do not register for voting, in any way abridged the right of male citizens to vote on account of their sex.

Sword has exempted the transaction from taxes in order to accelerate the buy-out.

Vaguely sensing a contradiction, he then exempts his own global-theorizing stance from having any adaptive value.

The Admiral, who had previously amused himself by giving an alarming description of this ceremony, now very courteously exempted his guests from the inconvenience and ridicule attending it.

Grandiose inscriptions were displayed all about to commemorate my benefactions, but my refusal to exempt the inhabitants from a tax which they were quite able to pay soon alienated that rabble from me.

My brother Francois alone exempted himself from paying the tribute, saying that he was ill, the only excuse which could render his refusal valid, for we had established as a law that every member of our society was bound to do whatever was done by the others.

And although in my own nature I am exempt from liability to birth or death, and am Lord of all created things, yet as often as in the world virtue is enfeebled, and vice and injustice prevail, so often do I become manifest and am revealed from age to age, to save the just, to destroy the guilty, and to reassure the faltering steps of virtue.

Exempt from that, He willed that created things should be, as far as possible, like Himself.

Another imagines that the process of embalming was believed to secure the repose of the soul in the other world, exempt from transmigrations, so long as the body was kept from decay.

Commission, and the property, activities, and income of the Commission, are hereby expressly exempted from taxation in any manner or form by any State, county, municipality, or any subdivision thereof.

Nonetheless, in the present circumstances Atcheson too believed that chaos could be averted and democracy best served if the imperial system were maintained and Hirohito exempted from charges of war responsibility.

These, again, had to be supplied with material, and the employees exempted from service.

They have exempted her from keeping up a large standing army and so preserved her from the danger of military despotism at home.

It even exempted him from paying certain forced loans which he had extorted from his people.

That measure exempted Trade Unions from liability to pay damages for a certain class of injuries which they might commit in carrying on a strike.