tax-exempt

Questions about tax-exempt

What does tax-exempt mean?

tax-exempt means "a security that is not subject to taxation". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tax-exempt?

tax-exempt has 3 syllables and divides as tax--ex-empt under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for tax-exempt?

Close synonyms include tax-exempt security, tax-free, untaxed. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tax-exempt a common word?

tax-exempt is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.