exemption

exemption
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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
Freedom from obligation
Nouns — exemption, freedom, immunity, impunity, privilege, liberty, release, excuse, dispensation, exception, benefit of clergy, executive privilege, absolution, discharge; [bill, act, covenant, or deed of] indemnity. See permission, unconformity.
Verbs — exempt, release, discharge, liberate, free, set at liberty; indemnify; let off, pass over, spare, excuse, dispense with, give dispensation; stretch a point.
Adjectives
1. exempt, free, at liberty, scot-free, released, unbound, unencumbered, unaccountable, not answerable, immune, privileged, excusable, off the hook.
2. not having, devoid of, destitute of, without, unpossessed of, unblest with, exempt from, off one's hands; tax-free, untaxed, untaxable, tax-exempt.
Antonyms, see liability, duty.
II
(Roget's IV) n.
Syn. exception, immunity, impunity, privilege, exception, exclusion, release, dispensation; see also exception 1 , 2 , freedom 2 .
Syn.- exemption implies release from some obligation or legal requirement, esp. where others are not so released [exemption from military service ] ; immunity implies freedom from or protection against something disagreeable or menacing to which all or many are liable [ granted immunity from prosecution ] ; impunity specifically implies escape or freedom from punishment [ to commit a crime with impunity]

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  • exemption — ex·emp·tion /ig zemp shən/ n 1: the act of exempting or state of being exempt 2: one that exempts or is exempted: as a: an amount of income exempted from taxation that may be deducted from adjusted gross income under the tax laws see also… …   Law dictionary

  • Exemption — • The whole or partial release of an ecclesiastical person, corporation, or institution from the authority of the ecclesiastical superior next higher in rank, and the placing of the person or body thus released under the control of the authority… …   Catholic encyclopedia

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  • exemption — Exemption, Immunitas. L immunité et exemption qu on a merité par le moyen des services qu on a fait à la republique, Vacatio rerum gestarum. Avoir exemption, Habere immunitatem. Donner exemption d aucune charge, Dare immunitatem alicuius muneris …   Thresor de la langue françoyse

  • exemption — Exemption. s. f. v. (Le P se prononce.) Droit, grace, privilege qui exempte, immunité. Exemption de tailles, de toutes charges publiques. on luy a donné un arrest d exemption, accordé une exemption …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

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  • exemption — [n] freedom from a responsibility absolution, discharge, dispensation, exception, exoneration, immunity, impunity, privilege, release; concepts 652,685,691 Ant. account ability, answerability, liability, responsibility …   New thesaurus

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