Crossword clues for exempt
exempt
- Getting a bye
- Freed from obligation
- Excused (from)
- Tax-loophole word
- Tax-__ (like municipal bonds)
- Taking advantage of a conscience clause, e.g
- Relieved (from)
- Release, as from an obligation
- Permitted to be unaffected
- Not taxable, e.g
- Not subject to, as jury duty
- Not subject to jury duty, say
- Not subject to (eg taxation)
- Not subject
- Not on the hook, as for taxation
- Not obliged to pay
- Not liable (for)
- Like nonprofits vis-à-vis taxes
- Like churches, vis-à-vis most taxes
- Let off the hook, in a way
- Give a waiver
- Freed (from), as taxes
- Free, as from a duty
- Free from obligations
- Free from an obligation
- Excused from paying taxes
- Excused from a final exam, say
- Excused (from tax)
- Excused — let off
- Duty-free, e.g
- Above the rules, in a way
- Released from
- Give a waiver to
- Free (from)
- Out of it?
- Off the hook
- Like nonprofits vis-Г -vis taxes
- Not taxable, e.g.
- Not subject to a rule
- Grant immunity to European politician replacing one in withdrawal
- Central indexing deemed acceptable for one paying no tax
- Excused - let off
- Old film about politician not included
- Not subject to taxation
- Not subject to a law
- Not subject to an obligation
- Not liable to
- Free sex not special with European politician, tense!
- Free from liability
- Free (from liability)
- Former lover abandoned, not entirely immune
- Release many to drill under river
- Release former partner, almost lacking emotion
- Having no duties former employee casually taking time to finish
- Not included
- Not subject to taxes
- Free, as from taxes
- Not obligated
- Tax-___ (duty-free)
- Released (from)
- Not subject to the rules
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Exempt \Ex*empt"\, n.
One exempted or freed from duty; one not subject.
One of four officers of the Yeomen of the Royal Guard, having the rank of corporal; an Exon. [Eng.]
Exempt \Ex*empt"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exempted; p. pr. & vb. n. Exempting.] [F. exempter. See Exempt, a.]
To remove; to set apart. [Obs.]
--Holland.-
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 \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.]
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Cut off; set apart. [Obs.]
Corrupted, and exempt from ancient gentry.
--Shak. Extraordinary; exceptional. [Obs.]
--Chapman.-
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
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."
c.1400, "to relieve or exempt," from Anglo-French and Middle French exempter, from exempt (adj.); see exempt (adj.). Related: Exempted; exempting.
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 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
(context transitive English) To grant (someone) freedom or immunity (term: from).
WordNet
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]
(of goods or funds) not subject to taxation; "the funds of nonprofit organizations are nontaxable"; "income exempt from taxation" [syn: nontaxable] [ant: taxable]
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.