exempt
exempt is a 6-letter English word with 11 senses as adjective, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Cut off; set apart. Face value is 17 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- adjective. Cut off; set apart.
- adjective. Extraordinary; exceptional.
- adjective. Free, or released, from some liability to which others are subject; excepted from the operation or burden of some law; released; free; clear; privileged; -- (with from): not subject to; not liable to; as, goods exempt from execution; a person exempt from jury service.
- noun. One exempted or freed from duty; one not subject.
- noun. One of four officers of the Yeomen of the Royal Guard, having the rank of corporal; an Exon.
- adjective. To remove; to set apart.
- adjective. To release or deliver from some liability which others are subject to; to except or excuse from he operation of a law; to grant immunity to; to free from obligation; to release; as, to exempt from military duty, or from jury service; to exempt from fear or pain.
- verb. grant exemption or release to
"Please excuse me from this class"
- verb. grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to
"She exempted me from the exam"
- 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
"a beauty somehow exempt from the aging process"
"exempt from jury duty"
- adjective. (of goods or funds) not subject to taxation
"the funds of nonprofit organizations are nontaxable"
"income exempt from taxation"
Synonyms
excuse, relieve, free, nontaxable
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