exempt

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

• IPA^(key): /ɪɡˈzɛmpt/, /ɛɡˈzɛm(p)t/

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• Rhymes: -ɛmpt
• Hyphenation: ex‧empt

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.

   • 1679, [John] Dryden, [Nathaniel] Lee, Oedipus: A Tragedy. […], London: […] R. Bentley and M. Magnes […], →OCLC, Act I, page 15:

     Hear then this dreadful imprecation; hear it: / 'Tis lay'd on all; not any one exempt: […]

2. (of an employee or his position) Not entitled to overtime pay when working overtime.
3. (obsolete) Cut off; set apart.
   • 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:

     corrupted, and exempt from ancient gentry

4. (obsolete) Extraordinary; exceptional.
   • 1614–1615, Homer, “The Sixth Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume I, London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:

     Dymas daughter, from comparison / Exempt in business naval

     The spelling has been modernized.

• tax-exempt
• non-exempt, nonexempt

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.

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.

• exemption

• extemp

Learned borrowing from Latin exēmptus.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əɡˈzemt]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [eɡˈzemt]

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

1. exempt
2. (architecture) freestanding

   columnes exemptes ― freestanding columns

3. (art) in the round

   una escultura exempta ― a sculpture in the round

• exemptar

• exempció
• eximir

• “exempt” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From Latin exemptus, past participle of eximō.

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

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

1. exempt

   un système exempt de défectuosités

   A system free of defects.

exempt m (plural exempts)

1. exempt, (type of) policeman
   • 1844, Alexandre Dumas, Les Trois Mousquetaires, section XIII:

     « Suivez-moi, dit un exempt qui venait à la suite des gardes.

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• “exempt”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Latin exemptus, past participle of eximō.

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

1. exempt

Borrowed from French exempt or Latin exemptus.

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

1. exempt