Definition of "exempt" []

• To free from an obligation, a duty, or a liability to which others are subject: exempting the disabled from military service. (verb-transitive)
• Obsolete To set apart; isolate. (verb-transitive)
• 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. (adjective)
• Obsolete Set apart; isolated. (adjective)
• One who is exempted from an obligation, a duty, or a liability. (noun)

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• "In Shiloh, a town of 2,200 people, billboards advertise new homes, and foundations have been laid for about 10 new buildings that remain exempt from the 10-month construction freeze."
• "The term exempt is, strictly speaking, not applied to an Abbot nullius, because his jurisdiction is entirely extraterritorial."
• "But if I was Rep. Kennedy I would tell the Bishop, your tax exempt is over with."