exempt

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪɡˈzɛmpt/, /ɛɡˈzɛm(p)t/

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• Rhymes: -ɛmpt
• Hyphenation: ex‧empt

Adjective

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, Oedipus

     '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.
   • 1591, 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 606515358, [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 1002865976; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume I, London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, OCLC 987451380:

     Dymas daughter, from comparison
     Exempt in business naval

Derived terms

• tax-exempt

Translations

free from duty or obligation

• Bulgarian: освободен (bg) (osvoboden)
• Catalan: exempt (ca)
• Czech: oproštěný m, osvobozený m
• Danish: fritaget
• Dutch: vrijgesteld (nl)
• German: ^{(please verify)} befreit (de), ^{(please verify)} ausgenommen (de)
• Hebrew: פָּטוּר‎ (he) (patúr)
• Hungarian: mentes (hu), felmentett
• Italian: esente (it)
• Maori: hāmama, awere

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fritatt, fri (no)

  Nynorsk: friteke, fritatt, fri

• Persian: معاف‎ (fa) (mo'âf)
• Polish: zwolniony 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

• Czech: bez nároku na placené přesčasy

• Norwegian: fastlønnsansatt

Noun

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

Translations

one who has been released from something

• Danish: fritaget
• Dutch: vrijgestelde (nl) m

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

Verb

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.

Related terms

• exemption

Translations

to grant freedom or immunity from

• Bulgarian: освобождавам от задължение (osvoboždavam ot zadǎlženie)
• Czech: osvobodit (cs) pf
• Dutch: vrijstellen (nl)
• Finnish: vapauttaa (fi)
• German: ^{(please verify)} befreien (de), ^{(please verify)} ausnehmen (de)
• Hebrew: פָּטַר‎ (he) (patár)

• Hungarian: felment (hu), mentesít (hu)
• Latin: excipio
• 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)
• Ukrainian: звільняти impf (zvilʹnjaty), звільнити pf (zvilʹnyty)

Anagrams

• extemp

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Catalan

Adjective

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

1. exempt

Related terms

• exempció
• eximir

Further reading

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

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French

Etymology

From Latin exemptus, past participle of eximō.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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

1. exempt

Noun

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 reading

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

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Middle French

Etymology

From Latin exemptus, past participle of eximō.

Adjective

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

1. exempt