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say it: ig-ZEMPT
exempt is a verb and adjective meaning "grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to". It carries 4 recorded senses.
grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to
“She exempted me from the exam”
(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”
(of goods or funds) not subject to taxation
“the funds of nonprofit organizations are nontaxable”
“income exempt from taxation”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for exempt come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.