EXEMPT


Meaning of EXEMPT in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ɪgzempt ]

( exempts, exempting, exempted)

1.

If someone or something is exempt from a particular rule, duty, or obligation, they do not have to follow it or do it.

Men in college were exempt from military service...

ADJ : usu v-link ADJ , usu ADJ from n

2.

To exempt a person or thing from a particular rule, duty, or obligation means to state officially that they are not bound or affected by it.

South Carolina claimed the power to exempt its citizens from the obligation to obey federal law...

VERB : V n from n

• ex‧emp‧tion

(exemptions)

...the exemption of employer-provided health insurance from taxation.

N-VAR : oft N from n

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