Excuse vs. Exempt — What's the Difference?

In jurisprudence, an excuse is a defense to criminal charges that is distinct from an exculpation. Justification and excuse are different defenses in a criminal case (See Justification and excuse).

Free from an obligation or liability imposed on others

To make allowance for; overlook or forgive

Free (a person or organization) from an obligation or liability imposed on others

To grant pardon to; forgive

A person who is exempt from something, especially the payment of tax.

To apologize for (oneself) for an act that could cause offense

To free from an obligation, duty, or liability to which others are subject

To explain (a fault or offense) in the hope of being forgiven or understood; try to justify

(Obsolete) To set apart; isolate.

To serve as justification for

Freed from an obligation, duty, or liability to which others are subject; excused

To free, as from an obligation or duty; exempt

Not subject to certain federal workplace laws or protections, especially those requiring overtime compensation

To give permission to leave; release

(Obsolete) Set apart; isolated.

An explanation offered to justify or obtain forgiveness.

One who is exempted from an obligation, duty, or liability.

A reason or grounds for excusing

Free from a duty or obligation.

The act of excusing.

(of an employee or his position) Not entitled to overtime pay when working overtime.

A note explaining an absence.

(obsolete) Cut off; set apart.

(Informal) An inferior example

(obsolete) Extraordinary; exceptional.

(transitive) To forgive; to pardon.

One who has been released from something.

(transitive) To allow to leave, or release from any obligation.

(historical) A type of French police officer.

(transitive) To provide an excuse for; to explain, with the aim of alleviating guilt or negative judgement.

(UK) One of four officers of the Yeomen of the Royal Guard, having the rank of corporal; an exon.

To relieve of an imputation by apology or defense; to make apology for as not seriously evil; to ask pardon or indulgence for.

(transitive) To grant (someone) freedom or immunity from.

Explanation designed to avoid or alleviate guilt or negative judgment; a plea offered in extenuation of a fault.

Cut off; set apart.

(legal) A defense to a criminal or civil charge wherein the accused party admits to doing acts for which legal consequences would normally be appropriate, but asserts that special circumstances relieve that party of culpability for having done those acts.

Extraordinary; exceptional.

An example of something that is substandard or of inferior quality.

Free, or released, from some liability to which others are subject; excepted from the operation or burden of some law; released; free; clear; privileged; - (with from): not subject to; not liable to; as, goods exempt from execution; a person exempt from jury service.

To free from accusation, or the imputation of fault or blame; to clear from guilt; to release from a charge; to justify by extenuating a fault; to exculpate; to absolve; to acquit.

One exempted or freed from duty; one not subject.

To pardon, as a fault; to forgive entirely, or to admit to be little censurable, and to overlook; as, we excuse irregular conduct, when extraordinary circumstances appear to justify it.

One of four officers of the Yeomen of the Royal Guard, having the rank of corporal; an Exon.

To regard with indulgence; to view leniently or to overlook; to pardon.

To remove; to set apart.

To free from an impending obligation or duty; hence, to disengage; to dispense with; to release by favor; also, to remit by favor; not to exact; as, to excuse a forfeiture.

To release or deliver from some liability which others are subject to; to except or excuse from he operation of a law; to grant immunity to; to free from obligation; to release; as, to exempt from military duty, or from jury service; to exempt from fear or pain.

To relieve of an imputation by apology or defense; to make apology for as not seriously evil; to ask pardon or indulgence for.

Grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to;

The act of excusing, apologizing, exculpating, pardoning, releasing, and the like; acquittal; release; absolution; justification; extenuation.

Grant exemption or release to;

That which is offered as a reason for being excused; a plea offered in extenuation of a fault or irregular deportment; apology; as, an excuse for neglect of duty; excuses for delay of payment.

(of persons) freed from or not subject to an obligation or liability (as e.g. taxes) to which others or other things are subject;

That which excuses; that which extenuates or justifies a fault.

(of goods or funds) not subject to taxation;

A defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc.;

A note explaining an absence;

A poor example;

Accept an excuse for;

Grant exemption or release to;

Serve as a reason or cause or justification of;

Defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning;

Ask for permission to be released from an engagement

Excuse, overlook, or make allowances for; be lenient with;