exempt
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- v grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to
She exempted me from the exam - v grant exemption or release to
- a (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 - a (of goods or funds) not subject to taxation
income exempt from taxation
- The regulation, which holds that tax-exempt organizations cannot "participate in any political campaign on behalf of any candidate for political office," has been in place since .
- Lott's conservative critics, quite rightly, made a big fuss about his filing of a brief arguing that BJU should get the exemption despite its racist ban on interracial dating.
- Jehovah's Witnesses regard themselves as ministers, but draft boards often refuse to exempt them from Army service.