exempt

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The NPA has called for all registered pharmacies to be exempt from the Welsh Assembly Government's proposals for there to be a charge to single use carrier bags.

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  1. transitive verb To free from an obligation, a duty, or a liability to which others are subject: exempting the disabled from military service.
  2. transitive verb Obsolete To set apart; isolate.
  3. adjective 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.
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  • Simon's Soup Kitchen is a 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt organization.
  • Note that contractor Battelle, who received this contract for $750 million, is a tax-exempt organization. —  media monarchy
  • As a 501 (c) (3) recognized tax-exempt organization, for now, contributions to Basics Project are tax deductible for federal income tax purposes, subject to appropriate limitations. —  The Reality Check
  • Interest on savings certificates is exempt, as are bonuses or interest paid under instalment savings schemes, both of which are sold by —  Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • Because it is non-profit and tax-exempt, all contributions are tax deductible. —  Sail-World.com USA Latest News
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English exempten, from Old French exempter, from exempt, exempt, from Latin exemptus, past participle of eximere, to take out; see example.

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  1. from Middle English exempten, from Old French (and F.) exempter = Spanish exentar = Portuguese exemptar = Italian esentare, from Middle Latin exemptare, freq., from Latin eximere, past participle exemptus (later Provencal eximir = Spanish Portuguese eximir = Italian esimere), take out, deliver, free, from ex, out, + emere, take, buy: see emption, and cf. adempt, preëmpt, redeem. Hence also (from Latin eximere) example, exemplar, eximious.
  2. from French exempt = Provencal exempt, exem = Spanish exento = Portuguese exempto = Italian esento, from Latin exemptus, past participle of eximere, take out, exempt: see exempt, v.
 

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