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exempt
adjective as in freed from responsibility
Strongest match
Strong matches
verb as in relieve, absolve
Example Sentences
In his ruling, McKenna said the city needed to either license the units or formally exempt the housing authority from inspections through legislation.
Travel to and from Maryland and Virginia is exempt from the mayor’s order.
Neighboring cities, like Carlsbad, Escondido and Oceanside, have long argued that emails should be exempt from the state’s two-year minimum, so they also destroy emails on an earlier time table.
There is evidence, for example, that many departments buy their technology using federal grants or nonprofit gifts, which are exempt from certain disclosure laws.
State law requires local agencies to hang onto public records for at least two years, but many have argued that emails should be exempt.
Surely, Hollywood should not be exempt from such a standard.
Individuals and businesses could exempt themselves from anti-discrimination laws by proffering religious objections to them.
State and federal laws generally exempt religious institutions from having to perform gay marriages.
But having reached something of a compromise, the IRS approved the school as a tax-exempt nonprofit in March 2002.
The groups, nonprofits exempt from paying taxes, are not required to disclose their donors in Kansas and most other states.
He had discovered that the all-glorious boast of Spain was not exempt from the infirmities of common men.
The federal Bankruptcy Act prescribes what property passes to the trustee and also what is exempt.
Although exempt from concupiscence and "full of grace," she was so distrustful of herself as if she were in continual danger.
Is she more exempt from egotism, does she dislike others less, and has she fewer worldly affections?
The interests of the savings deposits are in like manner exempt from the Income Tax and from any future tax coming in its place.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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