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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | freedom from a responsibility |
| Synonyms: | absolution, discharge, dispensation, exception, exoneration, immunity, impunity, privilege, release |
| Antonyms: | accountability, answerability, liability, responsibility |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Concept: | [more]. Exemption. |
| Category: | 1. Property in general |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
exemption; absence; exception, immunity, privilege, release.
-verbs
not have; be without; excuse.
-adjectives
exempt from, devoid of, without, unpossessed of, unblest with; immune from., not having; unpossessed; untenanted (vacant); without an owner., unobtained, unacquired.
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| Concept: | [more]. Exemption. |
| Category: | 1. Moral obligations |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
exemption, freedom, irresponsibility, immunity, liberty, license, release, exoneration, excuse, dispensation, absolution, franchise, renunciation, discharge; exculpation.
-verbs
be exempt, exempt, release, acquit, discharge, quitclaim, remise, remit; free, set at liberty, let off, pass over, spare, excuse, dispense with, give dispensation, license; stretch a point; absolve (forgive); exonerate (exculpate); save the necessity.
-adjectives
exempt, free, immune, at liberty, scot-free; released; unbound, unencumbered; irresponsible, unaccountable, not answerable; excusable.
-phrases
bonis nocet quisquis pepercerit malis [Syrus].
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| Main Entry: | acquittal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | declaration removing blame |
| Synonyms: | absolution, acquitting, amnesty, clearance, deliverance, discharge, discharging, dismissal, dismissing, exculpation, exemption, exoneration, freeing, letting off, liberation, pardon, release, releasing, relief from, reprieve, vindication |
| Antonyms: | blame, censure, conviction, denunciation, doom, sentence |
| Main Entry: | condition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | requirement, limitation |
| Synonyms: | arrangement, article, catch, codicil, contingency, demand, essential, exception, exemption, fine print, kicker, modification, must, necessity, postulate, precondition, prerequisite, provision, proviso, qualification, requisite, reservation, rule, sine qua non, small print, stipulation, strings, terms |
| Main Entry: | discount |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reduction in cost |
| Synonyms: | abatement, allowance, commission, concession, cut, cut rate, decrease, deduction, depreciation, diminution, drawback, exemption, knock-off, markdown, modification, percentage, premium, qualification, rebate, remission, rollback, salvage, something off, subtraction, tare |
| Antonyms: | increase, mark-up, premium, rise |
| Main Entry: | dispensation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | permission |
| Synonyms: | exception, exemption, immunity, indulgence, license, privilege, relaxation, relief, remission, reprieve |
| Antonyms: | denial, veto |
| Main Entry: | exception |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | special case; irregularity |
| Synonyms: | allowance, anomalism, anomaly, departure, deviation, difference, dispensation, eccentricity, exemption, freak, inconsistency, nonconformity, oddity, peculiarity, perquisitor, privilege, privileged person, quirk |
| Antonyms: | normality, regularity, usualness |
| Main Entry: | franchise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | authority, right |
| Synonyms: | authorization, ballot, charter, exemption, freedom, immunity, patent, prerogative, privilege, suffrage, vote |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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