ex·empt ( g-z mpt )tr.v. ex·empt·ed, ex·empt·ing, ex·empts 1. To free from an obligation, a duty, or a liability to which others are subject: exempting the disabled from military service. 2. Obsolete To set apart; isolate. adj. 1. 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. 2. Obsolete Set apart; isolated. n. One who is exempted from an obligation, a duty, or a liability. [Middle English exempten, from Old French exempter, from exempt, exempt, from Latin exemptus, past participle of eximere, to take out; see example.] ex·empt i·ble adj. |
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