what does exempt mean?
EXEMPT as VERB
- Meaning
- grant exemption or release to
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- Please excuse me from this class
Hypernyms(s) exempt is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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- Meaning
- grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to
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- She exempted me from the exam
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EXEMPT as ADJECTIVE
- Meaning
- (of persons) freed from or not subject to an obligation or liability (as e.g. taxes) to which others or other things are subject
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- a beauty somehow exempt from the aging process
- exempt from jury duty
- only the very poorest citizens should be exempt f
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- Meaning
- (of goods or funds) not subject to taxation
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- the funds of nonprofit organizations are nontaxable
- income exempt from taxation
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