Etymology From Middle French exempt, from Latin exemptus, past participle of eximō.
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Free from a duty, obligation, rule, law, etc.
In their country all women are exempt from military service.
His income is so small that it is exempt from tax.
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Hear then this dreadful imprecation; hear it: / 'Tis lay'd on all; not any one exempt: […]1679, [John] Dryden, [Nathaniel] Lee, Oedipus: A Tragedy. […], London: […] R. Bentley and M. Magnes […], →OCLC, Act I, page 15:
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Not entitled to overtime pay when working overtime.
corrupted, and exempt from ancient gentry1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:
Dymas daughter, from comparison / Exempt in business naval1614–1615, Homer, “The Sixth Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume I, London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:
with this he slipped through the exempts quite unsuspected, and bade adieu to the Lazarists and his honest father […].1840, William Makepeace Thackeray, “Cartouche”, in The Paris Sketch Book:
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UK One of four officers of the Yeomen of the Royal Guard, having the rank of corporal; an exon.
exempt
verb
Etymology From Middle French exempt, from Latin exemptus, past participle of eximō.
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To grant (someone) freedom or immunity from.
Citizens over 45 years of age were exempted from military service.