exempt

1. a. Cut off; set apart. Source: opted

2. a. Extraordinary; exceptional. Source: opted

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. Source: opted

4. n. One exempted or freed from duty; one not subject. Source: opted

5. n. One of four officers of the Yeomen of the Royal Guard, having the rank of corporal; an Exon. Source: opted

6. a. To remove; to set apart. Source: opted

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. Source: opted

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 Source: wordnet

9. adj. (of goods or funds) not subject to taxation Source: wordnet

10. v. grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to Source: wordnet

11. v. grant exemption or release to Source: wordnet

12. 1. Cut off; set apart. [Obs.] Corrupted, and exempt from ancient gentry. Shak. 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. Shak. T is laid on all, not any one exempt. Dryden. 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.] 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 exempt us from the pain We are by doom to pay. Milton. Source: webster

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