(a.) Free, or released, from some liability to which others are subject; excepted from the operation or burden of some law; released; free; clear; privileged; -- (with from): not subject to; not liable to; as, goods exempt from execution; a person exempt from jury service.
(n.) One exempted or freed from duty; one not subject.
(n.) One of four officers of the Yeomen of the Royal Guard, having the rank of corporal; an Exon.
(a.) To remove; to set apart.
(a.) To release or deliver from some liability which others are subject to; to except or excuse from he operation of a law; to grant immunity to; to free from obligation; to release; as, to exempt from military duty, or from jury service; to exempt from fear or pain.
Example Sentences:
(1) But on June 29, 2011, Lois G Lerner, who heads the IRS division that oversees tax-exempt organizations, learned at a meeting that groups were being targeted, according to the watchdog's report.
(2) The chancellor confirmed he would bring in a welfare cap of £119.5bn, with the state pension and unemployment benefits exempted from this.
(3) As he told us: 'Individual faults and frailties are no excuse to give in and no exemption from the common obligation to give of ourselves.'
(4) However, an exemption in the MPA allows people from the US nuclear base on Diego Garcia to continue fishing.
(5) However, the 1916 Irish Easter Rising would be exempt.
(6) Relief on contributions, national insurance, tax-exempt lump sums and others amounts to a phenomenal £48.4bn a year.
(7) It had originally said anyone earning more than €500,000 (£410,000) a year would fall under the cap but has now exempted them if they are not taking or managing risk.
(8) The relative efficiency of investor-owned and tax-exempt hospitals in the product market for hospital services is examined as the free cash flow theory is used to explore capital-market conditions of hospitals.
(9) Asked whether the US tax code was convoluted and difficult to understand partly because of lobbying by companies including Apple for exemptions, Cook replied: "No doubt."
(10) The proposed exemption would be available to private companies that are based in Australia.
(11) "If at any time we had been presented with a scheme that in any way amounted to immunity, exemption or amnesty we would have stopped that scheme - consistent with our opposition to the previous Government's Northern Ireland (Offences) Bill in 2005."
(12) The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) may choose to provide exemptions for studios hoping to use the technology for artistic purposes.
(13) The exemption for the McAllen clinic lasts only until another licensed abortion facility opens in a location closer to the Rio Grande Valley than San Antonio.
(14) It’s also a legal authority that is exempt from oversight by Congress or the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, meaning we know even less about it than the other NSA powers that have been dripping out over the last year and a half.
(15) The 2 types of exemptions proposed were: 1) allowing pharmacists to provide a prescription-only drug in an emergency with the doctor providing a prescription within 72 hours, and 2) allowing pharmacists to provide a 3-day emergency supply of drugs previously ordered by a physician.
(16) However, those who volunteer for charity or a government body can be exempted.
(17) Further, he suggests that there are theoretical reasons why one could expect that one set of circumstances--those which typically apply in the short-term emergency commitment of mentally ill persons predicted to be imminently violent--may be exempt from the systematic inaccuracy found in the current research.
(18) "It is my intention to release every part of every paper of interest subject only to legal exemptions."
(19) A spokesman for Turnbull said on Monday night Turnbull and Partners Holdings had been used for other investments more recently, but the prime minister would now write to ask that it be removed from the Asic exemption list.
(20) Instances in which investigational use would require application to the FDA for an investigational New Drug Exemption (IND) and instances in which their use would require approval by an Institutional Review Board (IRB) will be described and examples given.
Exonerate
Definition:
(v. t.) To unload; to disburden; to discharge.
(v. t.) To relieve, in a moral sense, as of a charge, obligation, or load of blame resting on one; to clear of something that lies upon oppresses one, as an accusation or imputation; as, to exonerate one's self from blame, or from the charge of avarice.
(v. t.) To discharge from duty or obligation, as a ball.
Example Sentences:
(1) They were completely exonerated and released in 2004.
(2) Google agreed to change the ways it presents some search results and runs search advertising, but was exonerated of the results bias claims.
(3) In the past King has hinted at select committee sessions that Labour allowed public spending to rise too fast but his latest remarks are one of his clearest exonerations of Labour for the financial crash.
(4) The residents were exonerated of all charges by a review panel with lay and physician representation after testimony of expert witnesses.
(5) A negative FNA biopsy result does not exonerate the clinically suspicious lesion.
(6) In public they have welcomed an inquiry because they believe they will be exonerated of any accusations of profiteering or non-competitive actions.
(7) The underlying meaning of the first phase of this trial is, Clarke’s opening statement made clear, not to exonerate Tsarnaev completely of the 30 charges against him, but to win the jury’s trust for the second, death-penalty phase, when they will hear arguments as to whether to sentence Tsarnaev to die.
(8) Blatter himself was exonerated by Fifa because the receipt of commercial bribes was not a crime in Switzerland at the time he knew the money was paid to Havelange.
(9) Romania's agriculture minister Daniel Constantin angrily said an official investigation had exonerated his country's abattoirs.
(10) The 'judge-led inquiry' that never was is shut down and investigating kidnap and torture in freedom's name will be left to a watchdog that never barks and which exonerated the spooks six years ago."
(11) This is no surprise from someone who doesn’t like to read , is not fond of history showing he was sued for housing discrimination, and won’t apologize for calling for the execution of the Central Park 5 years after they were exonerated.
(12) This methodology resulted in an exoneration from the manual graphic-calculatory expenditure and in comparison to the traditional calculation method it did not show any statistically significant differences.
(13) In former times, up to the first world war, about a percentage of 74 of all criminal cases in connection with poriomania was exonerated on the erroneous assumption that the behaviour of the so-called poriomania would be caused by epilepsy.
(14) Having helped exonerate 16 clients already, Zellner said she intends to press forward with the Griggs, Johnson and Harris cases even if the DNA evidence is inconclusive.
(15) In 1967, BP chartered the vessel but was widely exonerated.
(16) Exonerated By the following morning, on 4 April, Patel's preliminary diagnosis on cause of death was being taken to mean the case was closed, while the information from Moore, Smith and Jackson did not appear to be making any difference.
(17) Why do we punish Dakota pipeline protesters but exonerate the Bundys?
(18) The sensible and motorial deficit can be decisively influenced by an early exoneration of the neurovascular septum.
(19) A government investigation has exonerated Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto and his finance minister Luis Videgaray of any wrongdoing regarding the purchase of mansions and holiday homes from public contractors .
(20) Adams insists the report exonerates him and told the Guardian he denies any wrongdoing.