Exempt vs Exam - What's the difference?
exempt | exam |
Free from a duty or obligation.
* Dryden
(of an employee or his position) Not entitled to overtime pay when working overtime.
(obsolete) Cut off; set apart.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Extraordinary; exceptional.
One who has been released from something.
(historical) A type of French police officer.
* 1840 , (William Makepeace Thackeray), ‘Cartouche’, The Paris Sketch Book :
(UK) One of four officers of the Yeomen of the Royal Guard, having the rank of corporal; an exon.
(informal) especially when meaning'' test ''or in compound terms.
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As nouns the difference between exempt and exam
is that exempt is one who has been released from something while exam is form of Shortened form|examination|lang=en especially when meaning test or in compound terms.As an adjective exempt
is free from a duty or obligation.As a verb exempt
is to grant (someone) freedom or immunity {{term|from}}.exempt
English
Adjective
(-)- In their country all women are exempt from military service.
- His income is so small that it is exempt from tax.
- 'Tis laid on all, not any one exempt .
- corrupted, and exempt from ancient gentry
- (Chapman)
Derived terms
* tax-exemptNoun
(en noun)- with this he slipped through the exempts quite unsuspected, and bade adieu to the Lazarists and his honest father […].
exam
English
Noun
(en noun)Finland spreads word on schools, passage=Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16.