0 present participle of exempt
1 to excuse someone or something from a duty, payment, etc.:
Small businesses have been exempted from the tax increase.
Moreover, there seems no normatively defensible basis for exempting positive duties from the jurisdiction of legitimate legislation.
The most powerful objection against exempting conscientious objectors from military service is precisely that they are free-riding on others' willingness to provide a public good.
Why should exempting the hands from their former communicational responsibilities have had the paradoxical effect of extending left-hemispheric control to these now-excluded hands?
Needs and social justice: the criterion of needs when exempting employees from layoff.
The latter is an exempting condition because an 22. 23. 24. 25. 26.
The inability to grasp moral reasons and to guide one's behavior in light of them is an exempting condition of moral responsibility as is the inability to hold people responsible.
The law targeted carriages "for the conveyance of persons," exempting those used in farming or trucking ("the transporting or carrying of goods, wares, merchandise, produce, or commodities"). 72.
If everyone else in the society received the vaccination, exempting those few who would otherwise bear an undue burden, would not increase the risk for others.
