exempt
pronunciation
How to pronounce exempt in British English:
UK [ɪɡˈzempt]
How to pronounce exempt in American English:
US [ɪɡˈzempt]
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- Verb:
- grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to
- grant exemption or release to
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- Adjective:
- (of persons) freed from or not subject to an obligation or liability (as e.g. taxes) to which others or other things are subject
- (of goods or funds) not subject to taxation
Word Origin
- exempt
- exempt: see example
- exempt (adj.)
- late 14c., from Old French exempt (13c.) and directly from Latin exemptus, past participle of eximere "remove, take out, take away; free, release, deliver, make an exception of," from ex- "out" (see ex-) + emere "buy," originally "take," from PIE root *em- "to take, distribute" (cognates: Latin sumere "to take, obtain, buy," Old Church Slavonic imo "to take," Lithuanian imui, Sanskrit yamati "holds, subdues"). For sense shift from "take" to "buy," compare Old English sellan "to give," source of Modern English sell "to give in exchange for money;" Hebrew laqah "he bought," originally "he took;" and colloquial English I'll take it for "I'll buy it."
- exempt (v.)
- c. 1400, "to relieve or exempt," from Anglo-French and Middle French exempter, from exempt (adj.); see exempt (adj.). Related: Exempted; exempting.
Example
- 1. Retail products such as mortgages will also be exempt .
- 2. If beijing wants to exempt them , it probably can .
- 3. Illinois is exempt from the compact .
- 4. God will never exempt you from the mundane .
- 5. This seemed fitting , as charities had already been largely exempt from earlier taxes on property since the elizabethan age .