exempt
verb (used with object)
to free from an obligation or liability to which others are subject; release.
have exempted
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present perfectof exempt.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Previous rounds of U.S. tariffs on Canadian goods have exempted goods compliant with the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, but the new ones don’t.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
Hundreds of unions members, students and teachers marched in Quito on Wednesday to protest the law, which also would have exempted basic materials from taxes and investors from tariffs.
From Reuters ● Mar. 25, 2022
It also would have exempted packaging for a range of pharmaceutical products and hazardous substances, including paint thinners, antifreeze and household cleaning products.
From New York Times ● Jul. 21, 2021
County health officials have exempted short-running productions such as commercials from testing workers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2020
They have exempted her from keeping up a large standing army and so preserved her from the danger of military despotism at home.
From The Leading Facts of English History by D. H. (David Henry) Montgomery
