Thesaurus: exempt

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1. a. Cut off; set apart.
2. a. Extraordinary; exceptional.
3. a. 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.
4. n. One exempted or freed from duty; one not subject.
5. n. One of four officers of the Yeomen of the Royal Guard, having the rank of corporal; an Exon.
6. a. To remove; to set apart.
7. a. 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.
8. 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
9. adj. (of goods or funds) not subject to taxation
10. v. grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to
11. v. grant exemption or release to