What's the difference between exempt and remit?

Exempt


Definition:

  • (a.) Cut off; set apart.
  • (a.) Extraordinary; exceptional.
  • (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.

Remit


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To send back; to give up; to surrender; to resign.
  • (v. t.) To restore.
  • (v. t.) To transmit or send, esp. to a distance, as money in payment of a demand, account, draft, etc.; as, he remitted the amount by mail.
  • (v. t.) To send off or away; hence: (a) To refer or direct (one) for information, guidance, help, etc. "Remitting them . . . to the works of Galen." Sir T. Elyot. (b) To submit, refer, or leave (something) for judgment or decision.
  • (v. t.) To relax in intensity; to make less violent; to abate.
  • (v. t.) To forgive; to pardon; to remove.
  • (v. t.) To refrain from exacting or enforcing; as, to remit the performance of an obligation.
  • (v. i.) To abate in force or in violence; to grow less intense; to become moderated; to abate; to relax; as, a fever remits; the severity of the weather remits.
  • (v. i.) To send money, as in payment.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Mithramycin should be considered in the early treatment not only of hypercalcaemia but also of severe hypercalciuria, if these complications do not rapidly remit during the first course of conventional myeloma therapy, with or without steroids.
  • (2) We measured CSF immunoreactive myelin basic protein (MBP), a marker of acute myelin damage, and sIL-2R levels in the CSF from 11 patients with active relapsing remitting (RR) MS, five with stable RR MS, eight with chronic progressive (CP) MS, five with other neurologic diseases, and three normal controls.
  • (3) Its remit was to produce a report on disinfection in endoscopy.
  • (4) So the government wants a “root and branch” review to decide whether the BBC has “been chasing mass ratings at the expense of its original public service brief” ( BBC faces ‘root and branch’ review of its size and remit , 13 July).
  • (5) Anxiety disorders tend to be remitting and relapsing rather than chronic.
  • (6) She said the remit of the inquiry – established under the 2005 Inquiries Act – is due to be published by July, following input from interested parties including those who were spied upon.
  • (7) Each patient had a similar clinical course characterized by hypoglycemia that remitted during hospitalization and recurred after discharge.
  • (8) This deficit tends to remit for manics and schizoaffectives, but not for schizophrenics.
  • (9) Ten (71%) of the 14 patients in the group that received both drugs completely remitted (change in Hamilton Depression Rating Scale score of greater than 75%, and final score of less than 7) within 4 weeks, while few patients treated with desipramine alone met these criteria within 4 weeks.
  • (10) We performed 15 dynamic gadolinium-DTPA (Gd-DTPA)-enhanced MRI studies in 8 patients with relapsing and remitting multiple sclerosis; 7 were follow-up studies.
  • (11) Because it ought to be crystal clear what the BBC has agreed to do as part of its public service remit.
  • (12) Thus, acute pancreatitis may fall to remit because of proximal pancreatic duct obstruction, for which pancreatoduodenectomy is a reasonable and effective treatment.
  • (13) Therefore, the cost was high by prolonged course of therapy to increase slightly remission rate, although it could remit a few more cases.
  • (14) First, Channel 4 , a commercial network with a public service remit, challenged the BBC's second child as the place where edgier material – and younger audiences – went.
  • (15) Commercial radio executives have criticised BBC Radio 1 and Radio 2 for failing to fulfill their public service remit – and suggested the two stations be switched to digital-only in a bid to boost digital take-up.
  • (16) ITN scrapped its news channel in 2005 but the BBC has a different remit and viewers look to it at time of national events such as a royal death or other major news stories.
  • (17) The pathogenesis of the relapsing and remitting paraplegia and its relationship with pregnancy is probably multi-factorial.
  • (18) One has to question how this fits with its core inflation-fighting remit?
  • (19) Hacked Off, which campaigns on behalf of victims of press intrusion for tighter press regulation, said this would help the government smooth out the wrinkles in the relevant clause added to the crime and courts bill, which attempts to define which publishers should be in or outside the regulator's remit.
  • (20) If the Parades Commission considers that the loyalist event falls within its remit, it could issue a determination that would limit its route, which currently passes the nationalist Short Strand.

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