exempt

The definition of exempt is you are excused from a rule or an obligation imposed on others.

(adjective)

An example of exempt is when everyone else is required to get to a meeting ten minutes early, but you are not required to do so.

See exempt in Webster's New World College Dictionary

transitive verb

to free from a rule or obligation which applies to others; excuse; release

Origin: ME exempten < Anglo-Fr exempter < L exemptus, pp. of eximere, to take out: see example

adjective

not subject to or bound by a rule, obligation, etc. applying to others

Origin: L exemptus

noun

an exempted person

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See exempt in American Heritage Dictionary 4

transitive verb ex·empt·ed, ex·empt·ing, ex·empts

To free from an obligation, a duty, or a liability to which others are subject: exempting the disabled from military service.
Obsolete To set apart; isolate.

adjective

Freed from an obligation, a duty, or a liability to which others are subject; excused: persons exempt from jury duty; income exempt from taxation; a beauty somehow exempt from the aging process.
Obsolete Set apart; isolated.

noun

One who is exempted from an obligation, a duty, or a liability.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English exempten

Origin: , from Old French exempter

Origin: , from exempt, exempt

Origin: , from Latin exemptus

Origin: , past participle of eximere, to take out; see example

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