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| Main Entry: | exemption |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | freedom from a responsibility |
| Synonyms: | absolution, discharge, dispensation, exception, exoneration, immunity, impunity, privilege, release |
| Antonyms: | accountability, liability, responsibility, answerability |
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| Main Entry: | exemption |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
devoid of, exempt from, not having, unacquired, unblest with, unobtained, unpossessed, unpossessed of, untenanted, without, without an owner
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-verbs
not have [more]; be without; excuse., 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) [more]; exonerate (exculpate) [more]; save the necessity.
-adjectives
exempt from, devoid of, without, unpossessed of, unblest with; immune from., not having [more]; unpossessed; untenanted (vacant) [more]; without an owner., unobtained, unacquired., exempt, free, immune, at liberty, scot-free; released; unbound, unencumbered; irresponsible, unaccountable, not answerable; excusable.
-phrases
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| Main Entry: | acquittal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | declaration removing blame |
| Synonyms: | absolution, amnesty, clearance, deliverance, discharge, dismissal, exemption, exoneration, freeing, liberation, pardon, release, reprieve, vindication, acquitting, discharging, dismissing, exculpation, letting off, releasing, relief from |
| Antonyms: | blame, censure, conviction, denunciation, doom, sentence |
| Main Entry: | discount |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reduction in cost |
| Synonyms: | abatement, allowance, commission, concession, cut, decrease, deduction, depreciation, diminution, drawback, exemption, modification, percentage, premium, qualification, rebate, remission, salvage, subtraction, cut rate, knock-off, markdown, rollback, something off, tare |
| Antonyms: | increase, premium, rise, mark-up |
| Main Entry: | franchise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | authority, right |
| Synonyms: | authorization, ballot, charter, exemption, freedom, immunity, patent, prerogative, privilege, suffrage, vote |
| Main Entry: | impunity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | freedom |
| Synonyms: | dispensation, exception, exemption, immunity, liberty, license, permission, privilege, security, nonliability |
| Notes: | impunity is protection from punishment, just as immunity is protection from disease |
| Antonyms: | imprisonment, incarceration |
| Main Entry: | liberty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | freedom |
| Synonyms: | authorization, autonomy, birthright, carte blanche, choice, convenience, decision, deliverance, delivery, dispensation, emancipation, enlightenment, exemption, franchise, free speech, immunity, independence, leave, leisure, liberation, license, opportunity, permission, prerogative, privilege, relaxation, release, rest, right, sanction, sovereignty, suffrage, autarchy, enfranchisement, power of choice, self-determination, self-government, unconstraint |
| Antonyms: | arrest, imprisonment, incarceration, restraint |
| Main Entry: | prerogative |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | right, privilege |
| Synonyms: | advantage, appanage, authority, birthright, choice, claim, due, exemption, immunity, liberty, perquisite, sanction, title, droit |
| Antonyms: | duty, obligation |
| Main Entry: | privilege |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | right, due |
| Synonyms: | advantage, allowance, appanage, appurtenance, authority, authorization, benefit, birthright, boon, chance, charter, claim, concession, event, exemption, favor, franchise, freedom, grant, immunity, liberty, license, opportunity, perquisite, prerogative, right, sanction, entitlement |
| Antonyms: | detriment, disadvantage |
| Main Entry: | salvation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rescue, saving |
| Synonyms: | conservation, deliverance, emancipation, escape, exemption, keeping, liberation, lifeline, pardon, preservation, redemption, release, reprieve, restoration, safekeeping, conservancy, extrication, preserval, sustentation |
| Antonyms: | harm, hurt, injury, loss, waste, endangerment |
| Main Entry: | freedom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | independence, license to do as one wants |
| Synonyms: | abandon, ability, bent, carte blanche, compass, discretion, exemption, facility, flexibility, free rein*, immunity, indulgence, latitude, laxity, leeway, liberty, margin, opportunity, play, power, prerogative, privilege, range, rein, right, rope*, scope, sweep, swing, abandonment, elbowroom*, full play, full swing, laissez faire, own accord, plenty of rope, profligacy, rampancy, unrestraint |
| Antonyms: | captivity, confinement, imprisonment, incarceration, limitation, servitude, slavery |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | license |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | authority, permission |
| Synonyms: | authorization, carte blanche*, certificate, charter, consent, dispensation, exemption, freedom, go-ahead*, grant, green light*, immunity, independence, latitude, leave, liberty, okay*, permit, privilege, right, ticket, warrant, entitlement, self-determination, unconstraint |
| Antonyms: | ban, prohibition, refusal, withholding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | release |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | delivery; dispensation |
| Synonyms: | absolution, acquittal, charge, clemency, commute, deliverance, discharge, emancipation, exemption, exoneration, freedom, freeing, liberation, liberty, manumission, relief, spring, turnout, acquittance, floater, let-off, lifeboat, lifesaver, walkout |
| Antonyms: | check, collection, gathering, hold |
| Main Entry: | remission |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | acquittal, pardon |
| Synonyms: | absolution, amnesty, discharge, excuse, exemption, exoneration, forgiveness, indulgence, mercy, release, reprieve |
| Antonyms: | accusation, blame |
| Main Entry: | right |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | privilege |
| Synonyms: | advantage, appanage, authority, benefit, birthright, business, claim, comeuppance, desert, deserving, due, exemption, favor, franchise, freedom, immunity, interest, liberty, license, merit, permission, perquisite, power, preference, prerogative, priority, title |
| Main Entry: | condition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | requirement, limitation |
| Synonyms: | arrangement, article, catch, codicil, contingency, demand, essential, exception, exemption, fine print, modification, must, necessity, postulate, prerequisite, provision, proviso, qualification, requisite, reservation, rule, small print*, stipulation, terms, kicker, precondition, sine qua non, strings |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | exception |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | special case; irregularity |
| Synonyms: | allowance, anomaly, departure, deviation, difference, dispensation, eccentricity, exemption, freak, inconsistency, nonconformity, oddity, peculiarity, privilege, quirk, anomalism, perquisitor, privileged person |
| Antonyms: | normality, regularity, usualness |
| Main Entry: | freedom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | political independence |
| Synonyms: | abolition, autonomy, deliverance, delivery, democracy, discharge, emancipation, exemption, franchise, home rule, immunity, impunity, liberation, liberty, manumission, parole, prerogative, privilege, probation, redemption, release, relief, rescue, salvage, salvation, sovereignty, abolitionism, autarchy, citizenship, disengagement, disimprisonment, enfranchisement, extriction, representative government, self-determination, self-government |
| Antonyms: | communism, government, subordination, suppression, subjection |
| Main Entry: | qualification |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | requirement, restriction |
| Synonyms: | allowance, caveat, condition, contingency, criterion, essential, exception, exemption, limitation, modification, need, objection, postulate, prerequisite, provision, proviso, requisite, reservation, stipulation |
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