exempt

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To free from an obligation, a duty, or a liability to which others are subject: exempting the disabled from military service.
2. v. Obsolete To set apart; isolate.
3. adj. 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.
4. adj. Obsolete Set apart; isolated.
5. n. One who is exempted from an obligation, a duty, or a liability.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To free or permit to be free (from some undesirable requirement or condition); grant immunity (to); release; dispense: as, no man is exempted from pain and suffering.
2. Exempted; having exemption; free or clear, as from subjection or liability to something disagreeable, onerous, or dangerous; dispensed: as, to be exempt from military duty; exempt from the jurisdiction of a court.
3. Removed; remote.
4. Standing apart; separated; select.
5. n. One who is exempted or freed from duty; one dispensed from or not subject to service, especially military or other obligatory public service.
6. n. In England, one of four officers of the yeomen of the royal guard, styled corporals in their commission; an exon.

Wiktionary

1. adj. Free from a duty or obligation.
2. adj. of an employee Not entitled to overtime pay when working overtime.
3. n. One who has been released from something.
4. v. transitive To grant (someone) freedom or immunity from.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adj. obsolete Cut off; set apart.
2. adj. obsolete Extraordinary; exceptional.
3. adj. 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
4. n. One exempted or freed from duty; one not subject.
5. n. engraving One of four officers of the Yeomen of the Royal Guard, having the rank of corporal; an Exon.
6. v. obsolete To remove; to set apart.
7. v. 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

WordNet 3.0

1. adj. (of persons) freed from or not subject to an obligation or liability (as e.g. taxes) to which others or other things are subject
2. v. grant exemption or release to
3. v. grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to
4. adj. (of goods or funds) not subject to taxation