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exemption

[ig-zemp-shuhn]

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noun

the circumstances of a taxpayer, as age or number of dependents, that allow him or her to make certain deductions from taxable income.

the act of exempting.

the state of being exempted; immunity.

Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English < Latin exemptiōn- (stem of exemptiō) removal. See exempt, -ion

Related forms

ex·emp·tive, adjective

non·ex·emp·tion, noun

pre·ex·emp·tion, noun

Synonyms
3. exception. Exemption, immunity, impunity imply special privilege or freedom from imposed requirements. Exemption implies release or privileged freedom from some duty, tax, etc.: exemption from military service. Immunity implies freedom from a penalty or from some liability, especially one that is disagreeable or threatening: immunity from disease. Impunity (limited mainly to the fixed expression with impunity) primarily suggests freedom from punishment: The police force was so inadequate that crimes could be committed with impunity.

Antonyms
3. liability.

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Example Sentences

The application for a religious exemption does not require verification by a member of the clergy.

The universities had argued for the exemption because they receive a mix of private and public money.

If that were not enough, the universities' non-commercial research exemption is also in trouble.

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The application for a religious exemption does not require verification by a member of the clergy.

The universities had argued for the exemption because they receive a mix of private and public money.

If that were not enough, the universities' non-commercial research exemption is also in trouble.

The sale took place under a special exemption to the international ban on trade in ivory.

That's where you put your money that is in excess of the exemption from estate and probate taxes and fees.

Now it's time for videogame-console modding to get an exemption too.

Yet a few states still have a sales tax exemption for religious publications.

Furthermore, if you provide a detour around algebra, you provide an exemption from abstract thinking.

The bigger the tax exemption for each sale, the bigger the available downpayment for the nearly simultaneous subsequent purchase.

So they expect special exemption from the rules of logic.

Even if the exemption is granted, it would be good only for three years.

Newspapers later regained their exemption while the tax was extended to the sale of all magazines.

Exemption from law could end under planned legislation.

So he has taken advantage of an exemption for owner-operated bars with no employees, and made his employees part-owners.

The difficulties gays have in winning exemption from military service.

Nineteen senators urged the repeal of the insurance industry's exemption from laws against price fixing and bid rigging.

Small companies have already won temporary exemption from full compliance.

They wanted an exemption for their brokerage units from an old regulation that limited the amount of debt they could take.

The current exemption rules allow schools to exclude children who are not vaccinated during an outbreak of communicable disease.

Much else has also been done to raise farmers' living standards, from tax exemption to free education.

They're doing this under the exemption to the rule mentioned in an earlier post about foundation accounts.

They include a five-year holiday on profits tax, and exemption from import and excise duties and from some licensing requirements.

Those exemption do not justify less personal freedom for the majority.

Destructive as it is, that exemption is politically untouchable.

His plan doubles the size of the tax exemption for dependants.

Socialism works the same way and has a corrupt elite that uses state power over the economy to get favors and tax exemption.

I'd propose an exemption from minimum-wage laws in areas with high poverty and unemployment.

Slightly lower on the list would be universal health care and removal of the tax exemption on employer-paid health insurance.

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World English Dictionary

exempt (ɪɡˈzɛmpt)

—vb
1.	(tr) to release from an obligation, liability, tax, etc; excuse: to exempt a soldier from drill

—*adj*
2.	freed from or not subject to an obligation, liability, tax, etc; excused: exempt gilts; tax-exempt bonus
3.	obsolete set apart; remote

—n
4.	a person who is exempt from an obligation, tax, etc

[C14: from Latin exemptus removed, from eximere to take out, from emere to buy, obtain]

ex'emption

—n

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Word Origin & History

exemption

late 14c., from Fr. exemption, from L. exemptionem, noun of action from eximere (see exempt).

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