exempt

adj

1. (not-comparable)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.”

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

2. (not-comparable)Not entitled to overtime pay when working overtime.
3. (not-comparable, obsolete)Cut off; set apart.

   “corrupted, and exempt from ancient gentry”

4. (not-comparable, obsolete)Extraordinary; exceptional.

   “Dymas daughter, from comparison / Exempt in business naval”

noun

1. One who has been released from something.
2. (historical)A type of French police officer.

   “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.

verb

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

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