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, obligation, rule, law, etc.

   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.

Derived terms

• non-exempt, nonexempt
• tax-exempt
• transmisogyny-exempt
• unexempt

Translations

free from duty or obligation

Arabic: مُعْفًى m (muʕfan) Bulgarian: освободен (bg) (osvoboden) Catalan: exempt (ca) Czech: oproštěný m, osvobozený m Danish: fritaget Dutch: vrijgesteld (nl) French: exempt (fr) German: (please verify) befreit (de), (please verify) ausgenommen (de), freigestellt (de) Hebrew: פָּטוּר (he) (patúr) Hittite: 𒀀𒊏𒌋𒉿𒀸 (a-ra-u-wa-aš) Hungarian: mentes (hu), felmentett Italian: esente (it) Macedonian: осло́боден (oslóboden) 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), eximido (es) Swedish: undantagen (sv) Turkish: muaf (tr)

not entitled to overtime pay

Czech: bez nároku na placené přesčasy German: (Überstunden) abgegolten 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”, 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.

Translations

one who has been released from something

Danish: fritaget Dutch: vrijgestelde (nl) m German: Freigestellter 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.

Derived terms

• exemptable
• exemptible
• nonexempted
• unexempted

Related terms

• exemption

Translations

to grant freedom or immunity from — see also except

Bulgarian: освобождавам от задължение (osvoboždavam ot zadǎlženie) Catalan: exemptar (ca) Czech: osvobodit (cs) pf Dutch: vrijstellen (nl) Finnish: vapauttaa (fi) German: (please verify) befreien (de), (please verify) ausnehmen (de), freistellen (de) Hebrew: פָּטַר (he) (patár) Hungarian: felment (hu), mentesít (hu) Latin: excipio Maori: whakawātea (mi), kape, awere Norwegian: frita (no) Portuguese: eximir (pt), isentar (pt) Romanian: scuti (ro), dispensa (ro) Russian: освобожда́ть (ru) impf (osvoboždátʹ), освободи́ть (ru) pf (osvobodítʹ) Spanish: eximir (es), exentar (es) (rare) Swedish: befria (sv) Ukrainian: звільняти impf (zvilʹnjaty), звільнити pf (zvilʹnyty)

Anagrams

• extemp

Catalan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin exēmptus.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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

Derived terms

• exemptar

Related terms

• exempció
• eximir

Further reading

• “exempt”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

French

Etymology

From Latin exemptus, past participle of eximō.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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

1. exempt

   un système exempt de défectuosités

   A system free of defects.

Noun

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.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Further reading

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

Middle French

Etymology

From Latin exemptus, past participle of eximō.

Adjective

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

1. exempt

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French exempt or Latin exemptus.

Adjective

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

1. exempt

Declension

Declension of exempt

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	exempt		exemptă		exempți	exempte
	definite	exemptul		exempta		exempții	exemptele
genitive- dative	indefinite	exempt		exempte		exempți	exempte
	definite	exemptului		exemptei		exempților	exemptelor