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exempt

Syllables: ex·empt/ɪɡˈzɛmpt/

exempt adjective: free from a duty, obligation, rule, law, etc.

Adjective

exempt (not comparable)

  1. Free from a duty, obligation, rule, law, etc.
    • In their country all women are exempt from military service.
    • His income is so small that it is exempt from tax.
  2. Not entitled to overtime pay when working overtime.
  3. (obsolete) Cut off; set apart.
    • corrupted, and exempt from ancient gentry1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
  4. (obsolete) Extraordinary; exceptional.
    • Dymas daughter, from comparison / Exempt in business naval1614–1615, Homer, “The Sixth Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615...

Noun

exempt (plural exempts)

  1. One who has been released from something.
  2. (historical) A type of French police officer.
    • with this he slipped through the exempts quite unsuspected, and bade adieu to the Lazarists and his honest father […].1840, William Makepeace Thackeray, “Cartouche”, in The Paris Sketch Book
  3. (UK) One of four officers of the Yeomen of the Royal Guard, having the rank of corporal; an exon.

Verb

exempt (third-person singular simple present exempts, present participle exempting, simple past and past participle exempted)

  1. (transitive) To grant (someone) freedom or immunity from.
    • Citizens over 45 years of age were exempted from military service.

exempt meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

exempt in Hindi

exempt, absolved, clear
बरी barī

exempt in Tamil

விலக்கு

exempt in Urdu

خارج, مستثنیٰ کرنا

exempt in Bengali

অব্যাহতিপ্রাপ্ত, মুক্ত, রেহাই দেওয়া, অব্যাহতি দেওয়া, মুক্ত করা, মুক্তি দেওয়া
More languagesFewer languages
exempt in Malayalam
ഒഴിവാക്കുക, മോചിപ്പിക്കുക
exempt in Arabic
مُعْفًى muʕfan
exempt in Persian
معاف mo'âf

Examples of exempt in a sentence

  • Students were exempt from service in the armed forces.
  • Hear then this dreadful imprecation; hear it: / 'Tis lay'd on all; not any one exempt: […]1679, [John] Dryden, [Nathaniel] Lee, Oedipus: A Tragedy. […], London: […] R. Bentley and M. Magnes […], →OCLC, Act I, page 15:

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Forms of exempt

Noun
pluralexempts
Verb
third-person singular presentexempts
present participleexempting
past participleexempted
pastexempted

Origin of exempt

From Middle French exempt, from Latin exemptus, past participle of eximō.

Words formed from exempt

Words that rhyme with exempt

Questions about exempt

What does exempt mean?
Exempt means free from a duty, obligation, rule, law, etc.
What is exempt in Hindi?
Exempt in Hindi is बरी (barī). See Exempt meaning in Hindi.
How do you use exempt in a sentence?
Students were exempt from service in the armed forces.
What part of speech is exempt?
Exempt can be an adjective, a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce exempt?
Exempt is pronounced /ɪɡˈzɛmpt/.

Words near exempt in the dictionary

  1. exemplifiers
  2. exemplifies
  3. exemplify
  4. exemplifying
  5. exemplum
  6. exempt
  7. exemptable
  8. exempted
  9. exemptee
  10. exemptible
  11. exempting

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: exempt (page history and authors); बरी (Hindi) (page history and authors); exempt (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); exempt (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); exempt (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); exempt (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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