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Exemption definition

ĭg-zĕmpshən
exemptions
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The state of being exempt; immunity.
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An exception to the ordinary operation of law, as:
  • An exception of certain property from bankruptcy or taxation.
  • The deduction of a certain amount in the computation of net income with regard to taxation, allowed for an individual, that individual's dependents, and certain characteristics, such as blindness or age.
  • Excuse from performance of a legal duty, such as release from serving in the military or as a juror.
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Exemption is defined as freedom from an obligation, duty or consequence.

When everyone else is required to attend a meeting and you don't have to attend, this is an example of a situation where you have an exemption.

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The act or an instance of exempting.
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The exempting from an individual's taxable income of a specified sum for the taxpayer and each dependent.
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Any such dependent.
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The state of not being subject to a responsibility held by others; in taxes, an amount subtracted from gross income to determine taxable income.
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An act of exempting.
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A deduction from the normal amount of taxes.
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The state of being exempt; immunity.
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An exempting or being exempted; freedom or release from a liability, obligation, etc.; immunity.
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Singular:
exemption
Plural:
exemptions

Origin of exemption

  • From Old French exemption, from Latin exemptio, from eximere

    From Wiktionary

Exemption Sentence Examples

  • The report confirmed their exemption from military duty.

  • If the householder has a wife he can mortgage or convey his estate of homestead only with her consent, and if he dies leaving a widow or minor children the homestead exemption survives until the youngest child is twenty-one years of age, or until the death or marriage of the widow, provided the widow or a child continues to occupy it.

  • These included hereditary succession to tenements, exemption from sullage, the right to elect a reeve (praepositus) if the grantor thought one necessary and the right to marry without the lord's interference.

  • Exemption was obtained from these incidences of feudalism by large payments to the Crown in return for charters covenanting that Malta should for ever be administered under the royal exchequer without the intervention of intermediary feudal lords.

  • Exemption from the scope of these provisions may be granted by the governor-general and under such exemption a few Kaffirs are on the roll of electors.

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