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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
exempt
I.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
tax exempt
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And, frankly I would be surprised if the majority of readers were completely exempt from such situations.
▪ Are students exempt from compulsory schooling or from certain courses in the curriculum on religious grounds?
▪ Furthermore, interest on the bonds of state and local governments is exempt from the Federal income tax.
▪ Motorcycles, coaches, minicabs, taxis, school buses and buses for the elderly will also be exempt.
▪ Negotiators said Wednesday that the main sticking point was still whether the industry should be exempt from paying punitive damages.
▪ Prisons are exempt from having regular visits from environmental health officers, but in April 1992 this Crown Immunity will be lifted.
▪ This clause allows provinces to be exempt from court rulings for five years.
▪ We will then let you know whether you are exempt or not as soon as possible. 9.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
liability
▪ The Unfair Contract Terms Act does not totally prohibit the seller from exempting himself from liability for breach of these other terms.
▪ Moreover, death caused by poisoning, the most pre-meditated of all murders, was exempted from liability to capital punishment.
▪ But this does not exempt them from liability if their actions result in negligent damage to people or property.
▪ It is impossible for the seller to exempt himself from liability under section 12 of the Sale of Goods Act.
tax
▪ Not, that is, if the flat tax exempts enough income to keep from crunching the poor.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ My father was exempted from military service on the grounds of ill health.
▪ The new law exempts people who earn less than $8000 a year from paying any taxes.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Couples filing jointly could exempt $ 26, 000 from taxes.
▪ Florian said, was an engineer who was exempted from military service because of his profession.
▪ In the 1983 budget, gifts to charities were exempted from capital transfer tax.
▪ Registered companies are exempted from all taxes on approved activities, and no currency or exchange restrictions are imposed.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Exempt

Exempt \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.]

Exempt

Exempt \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.

Exempt

Exempt \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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
exempt

late 14c., from Old French exempt (13c.) and directly from Latin exemptus, past participle of eximere "remove, take out, take away; free, release, deliver, make an exception of," from ex- "out" (see ex-) + emere "buy," originally "take," from PIE root *em- "to take, distribute" (cognates: Latin sumere "to take, obtain, buy," Old Church Slavonic imo "to take," Lithuanian imui, Sanskrit yamati "holds, subdues"). For sense shift from "take" to "buy," compare Old English sellan "to give," source of Modern English sell "to give in exchange for money;" Hebrew laqah "he bought," originally "he took;" and colloquial English I'll take it for "I'll buy it."

exempt

c.1400, "to relieve or exempt," from Anglo-French and Middle French exempter, from exempt (adj.); see exempt (adj.). Related: Exempted; exempting.

Wiktionary
exempt
  1. 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 has been released from something. 2 (context historical English) A type of French police officer. 3 (context UK English) One of four officers of the Yeomen of the Royal Guard, having the rank of corporal; an exon. v

  2. (context transitive English) To grant (someone) freedom or immunity (term: from).

WordNet
exempt
  1. 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" [ant: nonexempt]

  2. (of goods or funds) not subject to taxation; "the funds of nonprofit organizations are nontaxable"; "income exempt from taxation" [syn: nontaxable] [ant: taxable]

exempt
  1. v. grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to; "She exempted me from the exam" [syn: relieve, free] [ant: enforce]

  2. grant exemption or release to; "Please excuse me from this class" [syn: excuse, relieve, let off]

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.