| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | ex·empt |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   g-z mpt |
| TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: ex·empt·ed, ex·empt·ing, ex·empts
1. To free from an obligation, a duty, or a liability to which others are subject: exempting the disabled from military service. 2. Obsolete To set apart; isolate. | | ADJECTIVE: | 1. 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. 2. Obsolete Set apart; isolated. | | NOUN: | One who is exempted from an obligation, a duty, or a liability. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English exempten, from Old French exempter, from exempt, exempt, from Latin exemptus, past participle of eximere, to take out. See example. | | OTHER FORMS: | ex·empti·ble —ADJECTIVE
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