Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act or an instance of exempting.
- n. The state of being exempt; immunity.
- n. One that is exempted, especially an amount of income that is exempted from taxation.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of exempting; the state of being exempt; freedom from some undesirable requirement or condition; immunity; dispensation: as, exemption from servitude; exemption from taxation.
- n. In the Roman Catholic Church, a regulation through which places or individuals are brought directly under the control of the Holy See, instead of being subject to the authority of the diocesan bishop.
Wiktionary
- n. An act of exempting.
- n. The state of being exempt; immunity.
- n. A deduction from the normal amount of taxes.
- n. Freedom from a defect or weakness.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of exempting; the state of being exempt; freedom from any charge, burden, evil, etc., to which others are subject; immunity; privilege.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an act exempting someone
- n. a deduction allowed to a taxpayer because of his status (having certain dependents or being blind or being over 65 etc.)
- n. immunity from an obligation or duty
Etymologies
- From Old and modern French exemption, or from Latin exemptio, from eximere (Wiktionary)
Examples
“This exemption is the only way they will be able to do it and defend their fair uses.”
“All you need for the exemption is the FM-3 and several months utility bills in your name at the address of the property being sold.”
“From my understanding, exemption is only filed if you or your organization is tax-exempt.”
“The Problem: People are being asked to either pay customs duties on imported books, or get an exemption from the DOF.”
“The law provides an exemption from the mandate for religious reasons and economic hardship.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » What Will Courts Do with the Individual Mandate?
“They want to know if a hard SHIT exemption is in this bill?”
“Getting a national exchange with a Medicare option, bans on denying pre-exisitng conditions, end of recission, employer/individual mandate, and stripping the anti-trust exemption from the insurance industry sounds pretty centre-left … which is where the party SHOULD be … but almost all of those conditions are non-starters.”
Think Progress » Poll Confirms Massachusetts Election Was Not A Rejection Of Health Care Reform
“Intellectual consistency forces us to acknowledge that exemption from a spending freeze is not the same thing as immunity from cuts for waste, fraud and abuse.”
“Internal tribunals can hardly qualify for exemption from the designation “external moral influence.””
“The exemption is not for “some high-faultin beer,” Gregoire went on.”
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