exempt

tr.v., -empt·ed, -empt·ing, -empts.

1. To free from an obligation, a duty, or a liability to which others are subject: exempting the disabled from military service.
2. Obsolete. To set apart; isolate.

adj.

1. Freed from an obligation, a duty, or a liability to which others are subject; excused: persons exempt from jury duty; income exempt from taxation; a beauty somehow exempt from the aging process.
2. Obsolete. Set apart; isolated.

n.
One who is exempted from an obligation, a duty, or a liability.

[Middle English exempten, from Old French exempter, from exempt, exempt, from Latin exemptus, past participle of eximere, to take out. See example.]

exemptible ex·empt'i·ble adj.

verb

To free from an obligation or duty: absolve, discharge, dispense, excuse, let off, relieve, spare. See free/unfree.

adj

Definition: freed from responsibility
Antonyms: accountable, answerable, liable, nonexempt, responsible

v

Definition: relieve, absolve
Antonyms: blame

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IN BRIEF: Released from some restriction affecting others.

True nobility is exempt from fear. — William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Common misspelling(s) of exempt

• exampt

Dansk (Danish)
adj. - fritaget, fri
v. tr. - fritage, dispensere
n. - person der er fritaget

Nederlands (Dutch)
vrijstellen, ontheffen, vrijgesteld, iemand die is vrijgesteld

Français (French)
adj. - exempt de
v. tr. - exempter (de qch), dispenser (de faire)
n. - exemption, dispense

Deutsch (German)
v. - freistellen, befreien von
n. - Freigestellter
adj. - befreit, verschont, ausgenommen

Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - απαλλάσσω ή εξαιρώ (βάρους, υποχρέωσης κ.λπ.)
n. - απαλλαγμένος (οικονομικών κ.λπ. υποχρεώσεων), εξαιρούμενος (δεσμευτικού μέτρου), (οικον.) αφορολόγητος

Italiano (Italian)
esentare, dispensare, esonerare, esente

idioms:

• exempt from    dispensare da, esonerare da

Português (Portuguese)
v. - isentar, dispensar
n. - isento (m), dispensado (m)

idioms:

• exempt from    dispensado de

Русский (Russian)
пользующийся привилегиями, свободный

idioms:

• exempt from    освобожденный от

Español (Spanish)
adj. - exento, libre, eximido
v. tr. - eximir, dispensar, exentar
n. - eximido, exonerado

Svenska (Swedish)
v. - befria
n. - fritagen, undantagen, befriad

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
免除的, 使免除, 豁免, 免税者, 被免除义务者

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 免除的
v. tr. - 使免除, 豁免
n. - 免稅者, 被免除義務者

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 면제된, 면역의
v. tr. - 면제하다
n. - 면제자

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 免除された
v. - 免除する

idioms:

• exempt from    免除する

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(فعل) يعفي من (الاسم) المعفى‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮משוחרר מ-, פטור‬
v. tr. - ‮שיחרר, פטר‬
n. - ‮אדם שקיבל פטור, בעיקר מתשלום מס‬

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