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発音

• IPA: /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, obligation, rule, law, etc.

   In their country all women are exempt from military service.

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

   • 1679, [John] Dryden, [Nathaniel] Lee, Oedipus: A Tragedy. […], London: […] R. Bentley and M. Magnes […], →OCLC, Act I, page 15:

     Hear then this dreadful imprecation; hear it: / 'Tis lay'd on all; not any one exempt: […]

2. (of an employee or his position) Not entitled to overtime pay when working overtime.
3. (obsolete) Cut off; set apart.
   • 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:

     corrupted, and exempt from ancient gentry

4. (obsolete) Extraordinary; exceptional.
   • 1614–1615, Homer, “The Sixth Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume I, London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:

     Dymas daughter, from comparison / Exempt in business naval

     The spelling has been modernized.

派生語

名詞

exempt (plural exempts)

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

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

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

動詞

exempt (third-person singular simple present exempts, present participle exempting, simple past and past participle exempted)

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

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

派生語

関連する語

• exemption

アナグラム

• extemp