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Other forms: exemptions
When you get an exemption, you don't have to do something. In the sixties, some people got exemptions from military service during the Vietnam War.
We don't often think of being left out as a good thing, but when you use the word exemption, you mean that someone has been excluded in a positive way. Children are exemptions, or deductions, on tax forms; the more children you have the less taxes you pay. Some non-profits are tax-exempt; their exemption means they pay no taxes at all. Exemptions also spare people from fighting in wars and doing some jobs. An exemption gets you off the hook.
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an act exempting someonesynonyms: granting immunity, immunitytypes:fixan exemption granted after influence (e.g., money) is brought to bearofficial immunitypersonal immunity accorded to a public official from liability to anyone injured by actions that are the consequence of exerting official authoritysovereign immunityan exemption that precludes bringing a suit against the sovereign government without the government's consenttestimonial immunity, use immunityan exemption that displaces the privilege against self-incrimination; neither compelled testimony or any fruits of it can be used against the witness who therefore can no longer fear self-incriminationtransactional immunitya broader form of use immunity that also protects the witness from any prosecution brought about relating to transactions to which they gave testimony
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immunity from an obligation or dutysynonyms: freedomtypes:amnestya period during which offenders are exempt from punishmentdiplomatic immunityexemption from taxation or normal processes of law that is offered to diplomatic personnel in a foreign countryindemnitylegal exemption from liability for damagesimpunityexemption from punishment or lossgrandfather clausean exemption based on circumstances existing prior to the adoption of some policy; used to enfranchise illiterate whites in south after the American Civil Wartype of:
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a deduction allowed to a taxpayer because of his or her status (having certain dependents or being blind or being over 65 etc.)“additional exemptions are allowed for each dependent”type of:deduction, tax deduction, tax write-offa reduction in the gross amount on which a tax is calculated; reduces taxes by the percentage fixed for the taxpayer's income bracket
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