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Except and Exempt Definitions

Except

With the exclusion of; other than; but
Everyone except me.

Exempt

To free from an obligation, duty, or liability to which others are subject
Exempting the disabled from military service.

Except

If it were not for the fact that; only. Often used with that
I would buy the suit, except that it costs too much.

Exempt

(Obsolete) To set apart; isolate.

Except

Otherwise than
They didn't open their mouths except to complain.

Exempt

Freed from an obligation, duty, or liability to which others are subject; excused
Persons exempt from jury duty.
Income exempt from taxation.
A beauty somehow exempt from the aging process.
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Except

(Archaic) Unless
"And ne'er throughout the year to church thou go'st / Except it be to pray against thy foes" (Shakespeare).

Exempt

Not subject to certain federal workplace laws or protections, especially those requiring overtime compensation
Exempt employees.

Except

To leave out; exclude
An admission fee is charged, but children are excepted.

Exempt

(Obsolete) Set apart; isolated.

Except

To object
Counsel excepted to the court's ruling.

Exempt

One who is exempted from an obligation, duty, or liability.
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Except

(transitive) To exclude; to specify as being an exception.

Exempt

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.

Except

(intransitive) To take exception, to object (to or against).
To except to a witness or his testimony

Exempt

(of an employee or his position) Not entitled to overtime pay when working overtime.

Except

With the exception of; but.
There was nothing in the cupboard except a tin of beans.

Exempt

(obsolete) Cut off; set apart.
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Except

With the exception (that); used to introduce a clause, phrase or adverb forming an exception or qualification to something previously stated.
You look a bit like my sister, except she has longer hair.
I never made fun of her except teasingly.

Exempt

(obsolete) Extraordinary; exceptional.

Except

(archaic) Unless; used to introduce a hypothetical case in which an exception may exist.

Exempt

One who has been released from something.

Except

To take or leave out (anything) from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit.
Who never touchedThe excepted tree.
Wherein (if we only except the unfitness of the judge) all other things concurred.

Exempt

(historical) A type of French police officer.

Except

To object to; to protest against.

Exempt

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

Except

To take exception; to object; - usually followed by to, sometimes by against; as, to except to a witness or his testimony.
Except thou wilt except against my love.

Exempt

(transitive) To grant (someone) freedom or immunity from.
Citizens over 45 years of age were exempted from military service.

Except

With exclusion of; leaving or left out; excepting.
God and his Son except,Created thing naught valued he nor . . . shunned.

Exempt

Cut off; set apart.
Corrupted, and exempt from ancient gentry.

Except

Unless; if it be not so that.
And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
But yesterday you never opened lip,Except, indeed, to drink.

Exempt

Extraordinary; exceptional.

Except

Take exception to;
He demurred at my suggestion to work on Saturday

Exempt

Free, or released, from some liability to which others are subject; excepted from the operation or burden of some law; released; free; clear; privileged; - (with from): not subject to; not liable to; as, goods exempt from execution; a person exempt from jury service.
True nobility is exempt from fear.
T is laid on all, not any one exempt.

Except

Prevent from being included or considered or accepted;
The bad results were excluded from the report
Leave off the top piece

Exempt

One exempted or freed from duty; one not subject.

Exempt

One of four officers of the Yeomen of the Royal Guard, having the rank of corporal; an Exon.

Exempt

To remove; to set apart.

Exempt

To release or deliver from some liability which others are subject to; to except or excuse from he operation of a law; to grant immunity to; to free from obligation; to release; as, to exempt from military duty, or from jury service; to exempt from fear or pain.
DeathSo snatched will not exempt us from the painWe are by doom to pay.

Exempt

Grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to;
She exempted me from the exam

Exempt

Grant exemption or release to;
Please excuse me from this class

Exempt

(of persons) freed from or not subject to an obligation or liability (as e.g. taxes) to which others or other things are subject;
A beauty somehow exempt from the aging process
Exempt from jury duty
Only the very poorest citizens should be exempt from income taxes

Exempt

(of goods or funds) not subject to taxation;
The funds of nonprofit organizations are nontaxable
Income exempt from taxation

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