exemption

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Etymology

From Old French exemption, from Latin exemptiō, from eximō, equivalent to exempt +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪɡˈzɛm(p).ʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

exemption (countable and uncountable, plural exemptions)

1. An act of exempting.
2. The state of being exempt; immunity.
   • 2023 June 2, Tami Luhby, “Here’s who would have to work for government benefits – and who wouldn’t – under the debt ceiling package”, in CNN‎:

     The legislation also tightens the share of unused exemptions states can carry over from year to year. […] Lots of people who are in compliance with the new rules – either because they already work or meet exemption criteria – could lose their assistance because of red tape, said Dottie Rosenbaum, the center’s director of federal SNAP policy.

3. A deduction from the normal amount of taxes.
4. Freedom from a defect or weakness.

Synonyms

• dispensation
• free pass
• get out of jail free card
• immunity

Derived terms

• exemptional
• nonexemption
• therapeutic use exemption

Translations

act of exempting

Bulgarian: освобождаване (bg) n (osvoboždavane) Catalan: exempció f Chinese: Mandarin: 豁免 (zh) (huòmiǎn) Danish: fritagelse c, dispensation c, dispensation c, immunitet c Dutch: vrijstelling (nl), ontheffing (nl) Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Finnish: vapauttaminen (fi) French: exemption (fr) f Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: Befreiung (de) f, Freistellung (de) f, Ausnahme(regelung) f, Ausnahmebestimmung f Greek: απαλλαγή (el) f (apallagí) Ancient Greek: ἄφεσις f (áphesis) Hungarian: mentesítés (hu), mentesülés (hu), felmentés (hu) Irish: díolúine f, díolmhú m Italian: esenzione (it) f Khmer: ការលើកលែង (kaa ləək lɛɛng) Maori: kapenga, whakawāteatanga Mongolian: please add this translation if you can Norwegian: Bokmål: fritagelse m, dispensasjon m Nynorsk: dispensasjon m Persian: بخشودگی (fa) (baxšudegi), بخشایش (fa) (baxšāyeš) Polish: wykluczanie (pl) n Portuguese: isenção (pt) Russian: освобожде́ние (ru) n (osvoboždénije), исключе́ние (ru) n (isključénije) Spanish: exención (es) f, eximición f (Andes) Thai: please add this translation if you can Turkish: muafiyet (tr) Ukrainian: звільнення (zvilʹnennja) Vietnamese: sự miễn trừ

state of being exempt; immunity

Czech: výjimka (cs) Danish: fritagelse c Dutch: exemptie f Finnish: vapautus (fi), koskemattomuus (fi) German: Befreiung (de) f, Freistellung (de) f, Immunität (de) f Greek: απαλλαγή (el) f (apallagí) Ancient Greek: ἄφεσις f (áphesis) Hungarian: mentesség (hu) Italian: immunità (it) Maori: whakawāteatanga Norwegian: immunitet m Persian: بخشودگی (fa) (baxšudegi) Portuguese: imunidade (pt) Russian: иммуните́т (ru) m (immunitét) Spanish: exención (es) f, eximición f (Andes) Turkish: muafiyet (tr)

deduction from the normal amount of taxes

Danish: toldfrihed c Finnish: verovähennys (fi), vähennys (fi) German: Freibetrag (de) m Hungarian: adómentesség (hu), adókedvezmény (hu) Irish: díolúine f Norwegian: fradrag n Persian: بخشودگی (fa) (baxšudegi) Russian: (налоговая) льго́та (ru) f (lʹgóta) Turkish: vergi muafiyeti (tr)

freedom from a defect or weakness

German: Freisein n Hungarian: mentesség (hu)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛɡ.zɑ̃p.sjɔ̃/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

Noun

exemption f (plural exemptions)

1. exemption

   Synonym: dispense

Further reading

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