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UK
/ɛɡzˈɛmpʃən/
]
[ US /ɪɡˈzɛmpʃən, ɪɡˈzɛmʃən/ ]
[ US /ɪɡˈzɛmpʃən, ɪɡˈzɛmʃən/ ]
NOUN
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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 - immunity from an obligation or duty
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an act exempting someone
he was granted immunity from prosecution
How To Use exemption In A Sentence
- But a family planning a wedding reception would be able to claim exemption from import duty.
- Persons thus co-opted by the Senate were liable to the burden of the praetorship , and likewise those whom the Emperor ennobled, unless special exemption were granted.
- I also grant him exemption from the two-year practical experience requirement.
- The common characteristic of criminal summary procedure in a narrow sense is the exemption or substantial reduction of courtroom investigation procedure.
- Wiretapped recordings obtained pursuant to Title III are ordinarily exempt from disclosure under Exemption 3.
- The pressure group was commenting on suggestions that the Government is considering the abolition of pensioners' prescription exemptions.
- Both allowed the very young a certain exemption from the adult rules of religious belief and behavior; spiritually speaking, for rationalist Unitarians and evangelicals, children were a different order of moral being than adults.
- There was no exemption for those engaged in an armed insurrection and an armed struggle against a government. Times, Sunday Times
- Exemption from taxes will do little or nothing, the lower orders [end of page #249] are nearly all exempt, but that general dearness, that is the consequence of a general weight of taxes, is severely felt by them, and from that they cannot be exempted. An Inquiry into the Permanent Causes of the Decline and Fall of Powerful and Wealthy Nations. Designed To Shew How The Prosperity Of The British Empire May Be Prolonged
- The bill gives sensitive police files a blanket exemption.