exemption
ig zemp shuhn
- n immunity from an obligation or duty
- n a deduction allowed to a taxpayer because of his status (having certain dependents or being blind or being over 65 etc.)
additional exemptions are allowed for each dependent - n an act exempting someone
- 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.
- The McCain plan promises to increase the dependent exemption that a married couple could claim for each of their two children by $500.
- He admitted that exemption "necessarily operates to afford an indirect economic benefit" but he felt that the practice does not produce the kind of governmental "sponsorship .