exempt Meaning, Definition & Usage

verb grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to
relieve; free.
- She exempted me from the exam
verb grant exemption or release to
excuse; relieve; let off.
- Please excuse me from this class
adjective (of persons) freed from or not subject to an obligation or liability (as e.g. taxes) to which others or other things are subject
- a beauty somehow exempt from the aging process
- exempt from jury duty
- only the very poorest citizens should be exempt from income taxes
adjective (of goods or funds) not subject to taxation
nontaxable.
- the funds of nonprofit organizations are nontaxable
- income exempt from taxation

F. exempt, L. exemptus, p. p. of eximere to take out, remove, free; ex out + emere to buy, take. Cf. Exon, Redeem.

Cut off; set apart. Obs.
Corrupted, and exempt from ancient gentry. Shak.
Extraordinary; exceptional. Obs. Chapman.
Free, or released, from some liability to which others are subject; excepted from the operation or burden of some law; released; free; clear; privileged; -- (with from): not subject to; not liable to; as, goods exempt from execution; a person exempt from jury service.
True nobility is exempt from fear. Shak.

T is laid on all, not any one exempt. Dryden.

One exempted or freed from duty; one not subject.
One of four officers of the Yeomen of the Royal Guard, having the rank of corporal; an Exon. Eng.

F. exempter. See Exempt, a.

imperfect & past participle Exempted; present participle & verbal noun Exempting

To remove; to set apart. Obs. Holland.
To release or deliver from some liability which others are subject to; to except or excuse from he operation of a law; to grant immunity to; to free from obligation; to release; as, to exempt from military duty, or from jury service; to exempt from fear or pain.
Death So snatched will not exempt us from the pain We are by doom to pay. Milton.