exemption

English

Etymology

From Old French exemption, from Latin exemptiō, from eximō, equivalent to exempt +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪɡˈzɛm(p).ʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

exemption (countable and uncountable, plural exemptions)

1. An act of exempting.
2. The state of being exempt; immunity.
   • 2023 June 2, Tami Luhby, “Here’s who would have to work for government benefits – and who wouldn’t – under the debt ceiling package”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     The legislation also tightens the share of unused exemptions states can carry over from year to year. […] Lots of people who are in compliance with the new rules – either because they already work or meet exemption criteria – could lose their assistance because of red tape, said Dottie Rosenbaum, the center’s director of federal SNAP policy.

3. A deduction from the normal amount of taxes.
4. Freedom from a defect or weakness.

Synonyms

• free pass
• get out of jail free card
• immunity

Derived terms

• exemptional
• nonexemption
• therapeutic use exemption

Translations

act of exempting

• Bulgarian: освобождаване (bg) n (osvoboždavane)
• Catalan: exempció f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 豁免 (zh) (huòmiǎn)

• Danish: fritagelse c, dispensation c, dispensation c, immunitet c
• Dutch: vrijstelling (nl), ontheffing (nl)
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: vapauttaminen (fi)
• French: exemption (fr) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Befreiung (de) f, Freistellung (de) f, Ausnahme(regelung) f, Ausnahmebestimmung f
• Greek: απαλλαγή (el) f (apallagí)

  Ancient Greek: ἄφεσις f (áphesis)

• Hungarian: mentesítés (hu), mentesülés (hu), felmentés (hu)
• Irish: díolúine f, díolmhú m
• Italian: esenzione (it) f
• Khmer: ការលើកលែង (kaa ləək lɛɛng)
• Maori: kapenga, whakawāteatanga
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fritagelse m, dispensasjon m

  Nynorsk: dispensasjon m

• Persian: بخشودگی (fa) (baxšudegi), بخشایش (fa) (baxšāyeš)
• Polish: wykluczanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: isenção (pt)
• Russian: освобожде́ние (ru) n (osvoboždénije), исключе́ние (ru) n (isključénije)
• Spanish: exención (es) f, eximición f (Andes)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: muafiyet (tr)
• Ukrainian: звільнення (zvilʹnennja)
• Vietnamese: sự miễn trừ

state of being exempt; immunity

• Czech: výjimka (cs)
• Danish: fritagelse c
• Dutch: exemptie f
• Finnish: vapautus (fi), koskemattomuus (fi)
• German: Befreiung (de) f, Freistellung (de) f, Immunität (de) f
• Greek: απαλλαγή (el) f (apallagí)

  Ancient Greek: ἄφεσις f (áphesis)

• Hungarian: mentesség (hu)
• Italian: immunità (it)
• Maori: whakawāteatanga
• Norwegian: immunitet m
• Persian: بخشودگی (fa) (baxšudegi)
• Portuguese: imunidade (pt)
• Russian: иммуните́т (ru) m (immunitét)
• Spanish: exención (es) f, eximición f (Andes)
• Turkish: muafiyet (tr)

deduction from the normal amount of taxes

• Danish: toldfrihed c
• Finnish: verovähennys (fi), vähennys (fi)
• German: Freibetrag (de) m
• Hungarian: adómentesség (hu), adókedvezmény (hu)
• Irish: díolúine f
• Norwegian: fradrag n
• Persian: بخشودگی (fa) (baxšudegi)
• Russian: (налоговая) льго́та (ru) f (lʹgóta)
• Turkish: vergi muafiyeti (tr)

freedom from a defect or weakness

• German: Freisein n
• Hungarian: mentesség (hu)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛɡ.zɑ̃p.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

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Noun

exemption f (plural exemptions)

1. exemption

   Synonym: dispense

Further reading

• “exemption”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.