# exempt
## English
### Etymology

From Middle French exempt, from Latin exemptus, past participle of eximō.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɪɡˈzɛmpt/, /ɛɡˈzɛm(p)t/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛmpt
* Hyphenation: ex‧empt

### Adjective

exempt (not comparable)
* 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.
** 1679, [John] Dryden, [Nathaniel] Lee, Oedipus: A Tragedy. […], London: […] R. Bentley and M. Magnes […], →OCLC, Act I, page 15:Hear then this dreadful imprecation; hear it: / 'Tis lay'd on all; not any one exempt: […]
* (of an employee or his position) Not entitled to overtime pay when working overtime.
* (obsolete) Cut off; set apart.
** 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:corrupted, and exempt from ancient gentry
* (obsolete) Extraordinary; exceptional.
** 1614–1615, Homer, “The Sixth Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume I, London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:Dymas daughter, from comparison / Exempt in business navalThe spelling has been modernized.

#### Derived terms

* non-exempt, nonexempt
* tax-exempt
* unexempt

#### Translations
### Noun

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

#### Translations
### Verb

exempt (third-person singular simple present exempts, present participle exempting, simple past and past participle exempted)
* (transitive) To grant (someone) freedom or immunity from.
    Citizens over 45 years of age were exempted from military service.

#### Derived terms

* exemptable
* exemptible
* nonexempted
* unexempted

#### Related terms

* exemption

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* extemp

## Catalan
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin exēmptus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [əɡˈzemt]
* IPA: (Valencia) [eɡˈzemt]

### Adjective

exempt (feminine exempta, masculine plural exempts, feminine plural exemptes)
* exempt
* (architecture) freestanding
    columnes exemptes ― freestanding columns
* (art) in the round
    una escultura exempta ― a sculpture in the round

#### Derived terms

* exemptar

#### Related terms

* exempció
* eximir

#### Further reading

* “exempt” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## French
### Etymology

From Latin exemptus, past participle of eximō.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɛɡ.zɑ̃/, (less common) /ɛɡ.zɑ̃pt/

### Adjective

exempt (feminine exempte, masculine plural exempts, feminine plural exemptes)
* exempt
    un système exempt de défectuositésA system free of defects.

### Noun

exempt m (plural exempts)
* exempt, (type of) policeman
** 1844, Alexandre Dumas, Les Trois Mousquetaires, section XIII:« Suivez-moi, dit un exempt qui venait à la suite des gardes.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

### Further reading

* “exempt”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Middle French
### Etymology

From Latin exemptus, past participle of eximō.

### Adjective

exempt m (feminine singular exempte, masculine plural exempts, feminine plural exemptes)
* exempt

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French exempt or Latin exemptus.

### Adjective

exempt m or n (feminine singular exemptă, masculine plural exempți, feminine and neuter plural exempte)
* exempt