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Exempt vs Remission - What's the difference?

exempt | remission |

As nouns the difference between exempt and remission

is that exempt is one who has been released from something while remission is remission.

As an adjective exempt

is free from a duty or obligation.

As a verb exempt

is to grant (someone) freedom or immunity (from).

exempt

English

Adjective

(-)
  • 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.
  • * Dryden
  • 'Tis laid on all, not any one exempt .
  • (of an employee or his position) Not entitled to overtime pay when working overtime.
  • (obsolete) Cut off; set apart.
  • * Shakespeare
  • corrupted, and exempt from ancient gentry
  • (obsolete) Extraordinary; exceptional.
  • (Chapman)

    Derived terms

    * tax-exempt

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who has been released from something.
  • (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 […].
  • (UK) One of four officers of the Yeomen of the Royal Guard, having the rank of corporal; an exon.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To grant (someone) freedom or immunity (from).
  • remission

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A lessening of amount due, as in either work or money or intensity of a thing.
  • A pardon of a sin; the forgiveness of an offense.
  • (medicine) An abatement or lessening of the manifestations of a disease.
  • Her cancer was in remission .
  • (legal) Referral of a case back to a lower (inferior ) court of law.
  • See also

    * (medicine) relapse * reemission

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