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Webster 1913 Edition
Exempt
Ex-empt′
,Adj.
1.
Cut off; set apart.
[Obs.]
Corrupted, and
exempt
from ancient gentry. Shakespeare
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. Shakespeare
T is laid on all, not any one
exempt
. Dryden.
Ex-empt′
,Noun.
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.]
Ex-empt′
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Exempted
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Exempting
.] 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
We are by doom to pay.
So snatched will not
exempt
us from the painWe are by doom to pay.
Milton.
Webster 1828 Edition
Exempt
EXEMPT'
,Verb.
T.
Literally, to take out or from; hence, to free, or permit to be free, from any charge, burden, restraint,duty, evil or requisition, to which others are subject; to privilege; to grant immunity from. Officers and students of colleges are exempted from military duty. No man is exempted from pain and suffering. The laws of God exempt no man from the obligation to obedience.
Certain abbeys claimed to be exempted from the jurisdiction of their bishops.
EXEMPT'
,Adj.
1.
Free by privilege; as exempt from the jurisdiction of a lord or of a court.2.
Free; clear; not included.3.
Cut off from. [Not used.]EXEMPT'
,Noun.
Definition 2024
exempt
exempt
English
Adjective
exempt (not comparable)
- Free from a duty or obligation.
- In their country all women are exempt from military service.
- His income is so small that it is exempt from tax.
- Dryden
- 'Tis laid on all, not any one exempt.
- (of an employee or his position) Not entitled to overtime pay when working overtime.
- (obsolete) Cut off; set apart.
- Shakespeare
- corrupted, and exempt from ancient gentry
- Shakespeare
- (obsolete) Extraordinary; exceptional.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Chapman to this entry?)
Derived terms
Translations
free from duty or obligation
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not entitled to overtime pay
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Noun
exempt (plural exempts)
- One who has been released from something.
- (historical) A type of French police officer.
- 1840, William Makepeace Thackeray, ‘Cartouche’, The Paris Sketch Book:
- with this he slipped through the exempts quite unsuspected, and bade adieu to the Lazarists and his honest father […].
- 1840, William Makepeace Thackeray, ‘Cartouche’, The Paris Sketch Book:
- (Britain) One of four officers of the Yeomen of the Royal Guard, having the rank of corporal; an exon.
Translations
one who has been released from something
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Verb
exempt (third-person singular simple present exempts, present participle exempting, simple past and past participle exempted)
Related terms
Translations
to grant freedom or immunity from
French
Etymology
From Latin exemptus, past participle of eximō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛɡ.zɑ̃/
Adjective
exempt m (feminine singular exempte, masculine plural exempts, feminine plural exemptes)
Noun
exempt m (plural exempts)
- exempt, (type of) policeman
- 1844, Alexandre Dumas, Les Trois Mousquetaires, XIII:
- « Suivez-moi, dit un exempt qui venait à la suite des gardes.
- 1844, Alexandre Dumas, Les Trois Mousquetaires, XIII: