exemptとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ɪɡˈzɛmpt/, /ɛɡˈzɛm(p)t/
• 韻: -ɛmpt
• ハイフネーション: ex‧empt

形容詞

exempt (not comparable)

1. Free from a duty or obligation.

   In their country all women are exempt from military service.

   His income is so small that it is exempt from tax.

   • (Can we date this quote by Dryden かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     'Tis laid on all, not any one exempt.

2. (of an employee または his position) Not entitled to overtime pay when working overtime.
3. (obsolete) Cut off; set apart.

   • 1591, William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene iv]:

     corrupted, and exempt from ancient gentry

4. (obsolete) Extraordinary; exceptional.

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of Chapman to this entry?)

派生語

• tax-exempt

名詞

exempt (複数形 exempts)

1. One who has been released from something.
2. (historical) A type of French police officer.
   • 1840, William Makepeace Thackeray, ‘Cartouche’, The Paris Sketch Book:

     with this he slipped through the exempts quite unsuspected, and bade adieu to the Lazarists and his honest father […].

3. (Britain) One of four officers of the Yeomen of the Royal Guard, having the rank of corporal; an exon.

動詞

exempt (三人称単数 現在形 exempts, 現在分詞 exempting, 過去形および過去分詞形 exempted)

1. (transitive) To grant (someone) freedom or immunity from.

   Citizens over 45 years of age were exempted from military service.

関連する語

• exemption

アナグラム

• extemp