exempt

1. not comparableFree from a duty, obligation, rule, law, etc.

   His income is so small that it is exempt from tax.

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   In their country all women are exempt from military service.

   Students were exempt from service in the armed forces.

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

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

2. not comparableNot entitled to overtime pay when working overtime.
3. not comparableobsoleteCut off; set apart.

   corrupted, and exempt from ancient gentry

   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]

4. not comparableobsoleteExtraordinary; exceptional.

   Dymas daughter, from comparison / Exempt in business naval

   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

plural exempts

1. One who has been released from something.
2. historicalA type of French police officer.

   with this he slipped through the exempts quite unsuspected, and bade adieu to the Lazarists and his honest father […].

   1840, William Makepeace Thackeray, “Cartouche”, in The Paris Sketch Book

3. UKOne of four officers of the Yeomen of the Royal Guard, having the rank of corporal; an exon.

present singular third person exempts · participle present exempting · participle past exempted · past exempted

1. transitiveTo grant (someone) freedom or immunity from.

   Citizens over 45 years of age were exempted from military service.