different between exempt vs exempted

English

Etymology

From Middle French exempt, from Latin exemptus, past participle of exim?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???z?mpt/, /???z?m(p)t/
• Rhymes: -?mpt
• Hyphenation: ex?empt

Adjective

exempt (not comparable)

1. Free from a duty or obligation.
   • 1679, John Dryden, Oedipus

     'Tis laid 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.

4. (obsolete) Extraordinary; exceptional.

Derived terms

• tax-exempt

Translations

Noun

exempt (plural exempts)

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

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

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

Translations

Verb

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.

Related terms

• exemption

Translations

Anagrams

• extemp

Catalan

Adjective

exempt (feminine exempta, masculine plural exempts, feminine plural exemptes)

1. exempt

Related terms

• exempció
• eximir

Further reading

• “exempt” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Etymology

From Latin exemptus, past participle of exim?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.z??/

Adjective

exempt (feminine singular exempte, masculine plural exempts, feminine plural exemptes)

1. exempt

Noun

exempt m (plural exempts)

1. exempt, (type of) policeman
   • 1844, Alexandre Dumas, Les Trois Mousquetaires, XIII:

     « Suivez-moi, dit un exempt qui venait à la suite des gardes.

Further reading

• “exempt” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Etymology

From Latin exemptus, past participle of exim?.

Adjective

exempt m (feminine singular exempte, masculine plural exempts, feminine plural exemptes)

1. exempt

English

Verb

exempted

1. simple past tense and past participle of exempt