Exempted
[iɡ'zemptid]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Exempt
Checker: Trent
Examples
- Some provinces are exempted from the exclusive sale of tobacco, which the farmers-general enjoy through the greater part of the kingdom. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I answered, that his excellency's prudence, quality, and fortune, had exempted him from those defects, which folly and beggary had produced in others. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- In some countries, the lands of the church are exempted from all taxes. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- By the same statute, a great number of foreign drugs for dyers use are exempted from all duties upon importation. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Some provinces are allowed to compound for the gabelle, or salt tax; others are exempted from it altogether. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- They should be exempted like conscientious objectors. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Some provinces are exempted from them, and pay a composition or equivalent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- But conscientious objectors weren't exempted in this war. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- No one was exempted. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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