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