exempt
verb/ɪɡˈzempt/
/ɪɡˈzempt/
(formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they exempt | /ɪɡˈzempt/ /ɪɡˈzempt/ |
| he / she / it exempts | /ɪɡˈzempts/ /ɪɡˈzempts/ |
| past simple exempted | /ɪɡˈzemptɪd/ /ɪɡˈzemptɪd/ |
| past participle exempted | /ɪɡˈzemptɪd/ /ɪɡˈzemptɪd/ |
| -ing form exempting | /ɪɡˈzemptɪŋ/ /ɪɡˈzemptɪŋ/ |
- to give somebody official permission not to do something or not to pay something they would normally have to do or pay; to cause somebody to get this official permission
- exempt somebody/something (from doing something) Charities were exempted from paying the tax.
- exempt somebody/something from something His bad eyesight exempted him from military service.
- Small businesses are expressly exempted from the requirements of this legislation.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- expressly
- specifically
- from
Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin exemptus ‘taken out, freed’, past participle of eximere.
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