exempt

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English

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Etymology

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From Middle French exempt, from Latin exemptus, past participle of eximō.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɪɡˈzɛmpt/, /ɛɡˈzɛm(p)t/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛmpt
  • Hyphenation: ex‧empt

Adjective

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exempt (not comparable)

  1. Free from a duty or obligation.
    In their country all women are exempt from military service.
    His income is so small that it is exempt from tax.
  2. (of an employee or his position) Not entitled to overtime pay when working overtime.
  3. (obsolete) Cut off; set apart.
  4. (obsolete) Extraordinary; exceptional.

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Noun

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exempt (plural exempts)

  1. One who has been released from something.
  2. (historical) A type of French police officer.
    • 1840, William Makepeace Thackeray, “Cartouche”, in The Paris Sketch Book:
      with this he slipped through the exempts quite unsuspected, and bade adieu to the Lazarists and his honest father […].
  3. (UK) One of four officers of the Yeomen of the Royal Guard, having the rank of corporal; an exon.

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Verb

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exempt (third-person singular simple present exempts, present participle exempting, simple past and past participle exempted)

  1. (transitive) To grant (someone) freedom or immunity from.
    Citizens over 45 years of age were exempted from military service.
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Catalan

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin exēmptus.

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Adjective

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exempt (feminine exempta, masculine plural exempts, feminine plural exemptes)

  1. exempt
  2. (architecture) freestanding
    columnes exemptesfreestanding columns
  3. (art) in the round
    una escultura exemptaa sculpture in the round

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French

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Etymology

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From Latin exemptus, past participle of eximō.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɛɡ.zɑ̃/, (less common) /ɛɡ.zɑ̃pt/

Adjective

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exempt (feminine exempte, masculine plural exempts, feminine plural exemptes)

  1. exempt
    un système exempt de défectuosités
    A system free of defects.

Noun

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exempt m (plural exempts)

  1. exempt, (type of) policeman

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Middle French

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Etymology

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From Latin exemptus, past participle of eximō.

Adjective

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exempt m (feminine singular exempte, masculine plural exempts, feminine plural exemptes)

  1. exempt

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French exempt or Latin exemptus.

Adjective

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exempt m or n (feminine singular exemptă, masculine plural exempți, feminine and neuter plural exempte)

  1. exempt

Declension

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