Exempt

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɪɡˈzÉ›mpt/, /ɛɡˈzÉ›m(p)t/
• Rhymes: -É›mpt
• Hyphenation: ex + empt

Origin

From Middle French exempt, from Latin exemptus, past participle of eximō. The employement sense is due to the position's exemption from provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act.

Full definition of exempt

Adjective

1. Free from a duty or obligation.In their country all women are exempt from military service.His income is so small that it is exempt from tax.
• Dryden'Tis laid on all, not any one exempt.
2. (of an employee or his position) Not entitled to overtime pay when working overtime.
3. (obsolete) Cut off; set apart.
• Shakespearecorrupted, and exempt from ancient gentry
4. (obsolete) Extraordinary; exceptional.

Derived terms

• tax-exempt

Noun

1. One who has been released from something.
2. (historical) A type of French police officer.
• 1840, William Makepeace Thackeray, ‘Cartouche’, The Paris Sketch Book:with this he slipped through the exempts quite unsuspected, and bade adieu to the Lazarists and his honest father ….
3. (UK) One of four officers of the Yeomen of the Royal Guard, having the rank of corporal; an exon.

Verb

1. (transitive) To grant (someone) freedom or immunity from.

Related terms

• exemption