exempt

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.

   • 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.

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

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.

Anagrams

• extemp

Adjective

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

1. exempt

Etymology

From Latin exemptus, past participle of eximō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛɡ.zɑ̃/

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 le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Etymology

From Latin exemptus, past participle of eximō.

Adjective

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

1. exempt