exempt
adjective
1. (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
- only the very poorest citizens should be exempt from income taxes
Similar word(s): excused, immune, privileged
2. (of goods or funds) not subject to taxation
- income exempt from taxation
Similar word(s): exempt, untaxed, unratable, nontaxable
Sentences with exempt as an adjective:
- In their country all women are exempt from military service.
- His income is so small that it is exempt from tax.
noun
1. One who has been released from something.
2. (historical) A type of French police officer.
3. (Britain) One of four officers of the Yeomen of the Royal Guard, having the rank of corporal; an exon.