Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word EXEMPT

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Definitions of EXEMPT

1. Free from a duty or obligation.
2. One who has been released from something.
3. (of an employee or his position) Not entitled to overtime pay when working overtime.
4. (obsolete) Cut off; set apart.
5. (obsolete) Extraordinary; exceptional.
6. (historical) A type of French police officer.
7. (UK) One of four officers of the Yeomen of the Royal Guard, having the rank of corporal; an exon.
8. (transitive) To grant (someone) freedom or immunity from.

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Examples of Using EXEMPT in a Sentence

• Dhimmi were exempt from military service and other duties assigned specifically to Muslims if they paid the poll tax (jizya) but were otherwise equal under the laws of property, contract, and obligation.
• 5 million guilder accumulated during the reign of his father, John George instituted a grain tax which drove part of the peasantry into dependence on a nobility that was exempt from taxation.
• In the Latin Church, a primate is an archbishop—or, rarely, a suffragan or exempt bishop—of a specific (mostly metropolitan) episcopal see (called a primatial see) who has precedence over the bishoprics of one or more ecclesiastical provinces of a particular historical, political or cultural area.
• Payments into the account are made from after-tax income, then the account is exempt from income tax and capital gains tax on the investment returns, and no tax is payable on money withdrawn from the scheme.
• During the Civil War, North Carolina Governor David Lowry Swain persuaded Confederate President Jefferson Davis to exempt some students from the draft, so the university was one of the few in the Confederacy that managed to stay open.
• Exempt are the cities of Hephzibah and Blythe, in southern Richmond County, which voted to remain separate.
• Businesses in the county are 100% exempt on all classes of certain business inventory from property taxes.
• As a mixed-blood Cherokee, Washbourne was exempt from the federal policy restricting the sale or transfer of his land.
• They were exempt from tribute, but were obliged to supply a large number of men for the army, and the burden of conscription and the oppression of provincial governors were important incentives to revolt.
• In Jewish law (halacha), women are exempt from most time-dependent positive commandments, which include tefillin, and unlike other time-dependent positive commandments, most halachic authorities prohibit from fulfilling this commandment.
• Clément Marot praises him, and Ronsard was careful to exempt him with one or two others from the scorn he poured on his immediate predecessors.
• The NAACP, a nonprofit membership corporation based in New York, had not complied with the statute, as it believed it was exempt.
• Jean Scott, the head of the Independent Schools Council, said that independent schools had always been exempt from anti-cartel rules applied to business, were following a long-established procedure in sharing the information with each other, and were unaware of the change to the law (on which they had not been consulted).
• The name of the municipality changed to the current one, derived from “Braine”, former name of the stream that crosses its territory (now called the “Hain”), and “alleu(d)”, a medieval French word designating exempt land (English allod).
• A fictional country leaves the author unburdened by the restraints of a real nation's actual history, politics, and culture, and can thus allow for greater scope in plot construction and be exempt from criticism for vilifying an actual nation, political party, or people.
• However exempt charities must still comply with charity law and may approach the Charity Commission for advice.
• The league limits the number of experienced professional players in a team's lineup during any given game; only five skaters can have accumulated more than 260 games played at the professional level (goaltenders are exempt from this rule).
• The kings' firstborn sons, as heirs-apparent, were the only Spartan boys expressly exempt from the Agoge; however, they were allowed to take part if they so wished, and this endowed them with increased prestige when they ascended the throne.
• Unlike predecessor competitors such as the Players' League and the Federal League, it sought membership within organized baseball's existing organization and acceptance within Major League Baseball as any attempt at outsider leagues could be quashed by them per a 1922 Supreme Court case declaring MLB exempt from federal antitrust laws.
• The story concerns the unearthing of treasure and documents that lead to a small part of Pimlico to be declared a legal part of the House of Burgundy, and therefore exempt from the post-war rationing or other bureaucratic restrictions in Britain.
• The town was first settled by families from Exeter as a parish of Chester, and known as "Freetown" because it was exempt from the usual obligation of reserving its tall pine trees for masts in the Royal Navy.
• Exempt from taxes and benefiting from "huge subsidies from government," they have been called "bloated,".
• Some, such as being exempt from military service, were revoked in the latter part of the 19th century when the government needed more conscripts for the Russian army.
• Exempt – Grandfather clause that allows a pre-existing condition to continue, Tax exemption that legally excludes income or other value to reduce taxable income.
• The Diocese of Díli had once been part of the ecclesiastical hierarchy that mirrored that of Portugal's colonies, but on 1 January 1976 had been given exempt status, making it directly subject to the pope.

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