exempt

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ɪɡˈzɛmpt/, /ɛɡˈzɛm(p)t/

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• Rhymes: -ɛmpt
• Hyphenation: ex‧empt

AdjectiveEdit

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.

   • Dryden

     'Tis laid 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.
   • Shakespeare

     corrupted, and exempt from ancient gentry

4. (obsolete) Extraordinary; exceptional.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Chapman to this entry?)

Derived termsEdit

• tax-exempt

TranslationsEdit

free from duty or obligation

• Bulgarian: освободен (bg) (osvoboden)
• Catalan: exempt (ca)
• Czech: oproštěný m, osvobozený m
• Danish: fritaget
• Dutch: vrijstellen (nl)
• German: ^{(please verify)} befreit (de), ^{(please verify)} ausgenommen (de)
• Hebrew: פָּטוּר‎ (he) (patúr)
• Maori: hāmama, awere
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fritatt, fri (no)

  Nynorsk: friteke, fritatt, fri

• Persian: معاف‎ (fa) (mo'âf)
• Polish: zwolniony (pl) m
• Portuguese: isento (pt)
• Romanian: scutit m, dispensat m
• Russian: освобождённый (ru) (osvoboždjónnyj), свобо́дный (ru) (svobódnyj)
• Spanish: exento (es)
• Swedish: undantagen (sv)
• Turkish: muaf (tr)

not entitled to overtime pay

• Norwegian: fastlønnsansatt

NounEdit

exempt (plural exempts)

1. One who has been released from something.
2. (historical) A type of French police officer.
   • 1840, William Makepeace Thackeray, ‘Cartouche’, The Paris Sketch Book:

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

3. (Britain) One of four officers of the Yeomen of the Royal Guard, having the rank of corporal; an exon.

TranslationsEdit

one who has been released from something

• Danish: fritaget
• Dutch: vrijgestelde m

• Norwegian: fritatt
• Romanian: scutire (ro) f, dispensare (ro) f

VerbEdit

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.

Related termsEdit

• exemption

TranslationsEdit

to grant freedom or immunity from

• Dutch: vrijstellen (nl)
• Finnish: vapauttaa (fi)
• German: ^{(please verify)} befreien (de), ^{(please verify)} ausnehmen (de)
• Hebrew: פָּטַר‎ (he) (patár)
• Maori: whakawātea (mi), kape, awere

• Norwegian: frita (no)
• Romanian: scuti (ro), dispensa (ro)
• Russian: освобожда́ть (ru) impf (osvoboždátʹ), освободи́ть (ru) pf (osvobodítʹ)
• Swedish: befria (sv)

AnagramsEdit

• extemp

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CatalanEdit

AdjectiveEdit

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

1. exempt

Related termsEdit

• exempció
• eximir

Further readingEdit

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

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FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin exemptus, past participle of eximō.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ɛɡ.zɑ̃/

AdjectiveEdit

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

1. exempt

NounEdit

exempt m (plural exempts)

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

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

Further readingEdit

• “exempt” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Middle FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin exemptus, past participle of eximō.

AdjectiveEdit

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

1. exempt