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Exempt   /ɪgzˈɛmpt/   Listen
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.  "Exempt from jury duty" , "Only the very poorest citizens should be exempt from income taxes"
2.
(of goods or funds) not subject to taxation.  Synonym: nontaxable.  "Income exempt from taxation"
verb
(past & past part. exempted; pres. part. exempting)
1.
Grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to.  Synonyms: free, relieve.
2.
Grant exemption or release to.  Synonyms: excuse, let off, relieve.



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"Exempt" Quotes from Famous Books



... companion she looked for. Ann and she were not congenial minds, nor did she contribute to her comfort in the degree she expected. She shielded her from poverty; but this was only a negative blessing; when under the pressure it was very grievous, and still more so were the apprehensions; but when exempt from them, she ...
— Mary - A Fiction • Mary Wollstonecraft
... a Wyoming cattle company bought all the central Texas steers for delivery a month later at Cheyenne, and we grazed them up the South Platte and counted them out to the buyers, ten thousand strong. My individual herds classed as Pan-Handle cattle, exempt from quarantine, netted one dollar a head above the others, and were sold to speculators from the corn regions on the western borders of Nebraska. One herd of cows was intended for the Southern and the other for the Uncompahgre Utes, and they had been picking their way through and across the ...
— Reed Anthony, Cowman • Andy Adams
... for Motherhood.—The second fact which must have its recognition in any study of education in relation to the family, is that no married woman is exempt from all demands of motherhood unless some "selective draft," more delicate in its evaluation than any we have yet evolved, shall indicate her right to exemption, and that if marriage is to continue on anything like its ...
— The Family and it's Members • Anna Garlin Spencer
... any wise exchewe yl & shrewd compani yf a ma be neuer soo good & vse [with] th[e] [that] be vnthrifti He shal lese his name, & to some vice they wil him t[e]p therfore beware of such people, & from th[e] be exempt ...
— The Interlude of Wealth and Health • Anonymous
... How many times must I explain to you that that wouldn't do, because your ma, while she possesses many of the charms, is not quite exempt from the weakness of her sex: in short, Lydia, ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 • Various


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