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免税者,被免除义务者免除的使免除,豁免
资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Exempt \Ex*empt"\, n.
1. One exempted or freed from duty; one not subject.
2. One of four officers of the Yeomen of the Royal Guard,
having the rank of corporal; an Exon. [Eng.]
Exempt \Ex*empt"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Exempted}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Exempting}.] [F. exempter. See {Exempt}, a.]
1. To remove; to set apart. [Obs.] --Holland.
2. 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.
Death So snatched will not exempt us from the pain
We are by doom to pay. --Milton.
Exempt \Ex*empt"\, a. [F. exempt, L. exemptus, p. p. of eximere
to take out, remove, free; ex out + emere to buy, take. Cf.
{Exon}, {Redeem}.]
1. Cut off; set apart. [Obs.]
Corrupted, and exempt from ancient gentry. --Shak.
2. Extraordinary; exceptional. [Obs.] --Chapman.
3. 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.
True nobility is exempt from fear. --Shak.
T is laid on all, not any one exempt. --Dryden.
资料来源 : WordNet®
exempt
adj 1: (of persons) freed from or not subject to an obligation or
liability (as e.g. taxes) to which others or other
things are subject; "a beauty somehow exempt from the
aging process"; "exempt from jury duty"; "only the
very poorest citizens should be exempt from income
taxes" [ant: {nonexempt}]
2: (of goods or funds) not subject to taxation; "the funds of
nonprofit organizations are nontaxable"; "income exempt
from taxation" [syn: {nontaxable}] [ant: {taxable}]
exempt
v 1: grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to;
"She exempted me from the exam" [syn: {relieve}, {free}]
[ant: {enforce}]
2: grant exemption or release to; "Please excuse me from this
class" [syn: {excuse}, {relieve}, {let off}]