Definition of exempt

• a. - Cut off; set apart.
• a. - Extraordinary; exceptional.
• a. - 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.
• n. - One exempted or freed from duty; one not subject.
• n. - One of four officers of the Yeomen of the Royal Guard, having the rank of corporal; an Exon.
• a. - To remove; to set apart.
• a. - 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.