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”
verb
1.
Origin
From Middle French exempt, from Latin exemptus, past participle of eximō.
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