The condition of being safe; freedom from danger, risk, or injury, A play in which a member of the offensive team downs the ball or is tackled or forced out of bounds behind his own goal line, resulting in two points for the defensive team, The condition or state of being safe; freedom from danger or hazard; exemption from hurt, injury, or loss

The state or quality of being independent, Archaic Sufficient income for comfortable self-support; a competence, The state of being independent; exemption from dependence upon another or others, or from another's control; self-support or self-government, That which renders one independent; property or income sufficient to make one independent of others; a competency

A day free from work that one may spend at leisure, especially a day on which custom or the law dictates a halting of general business activity to commemorate or celebrate a particular event, A day of exemption from labor; a day of amusement and gayety; a festival day, A period during which pupils and students do not attend their school or university, verb_ To take a period of time away from work or study, spend or take a vacation, intransitive verb_ To pass a holiday or vacation, adjective_ Of or pertaining to a festival; cheerful; joyous; gay, Occurring rarely; adapted for a special occasion

An exception to the ordinary operation of law, as, A deduction from the normal amount of taxes, a deduction allowed to a taxpayer because of his status (having certain dependents or being blind or being over 65 etc)

(of goods or funds) not subject to taxation, (of persons) freed from or not subject to an obligation or liability (as eg taxes) to which others or other things are subject, Free from a duty or obligation, noun_ One who is exempted from an obligation, duty, or liability, One who is exempted or freed from duty; one dispensed from or not subject to service, especially military or other obligatory public service, transitive verb_ Obsolete To set apart; isolate, To free from an obligation, duty, or liability to which others are subject, verb_ grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to, grant exemption or release to

Such an advantage, immunity, or right held as a prerogative of status or rank, and exercised to the exclusion or detriment of others, The principle of granting and maintaining a special right or immunity, In the civil law, a lien or priority of right of payment, such as the artisans' privilege, corresponding to the common-law lien of a bailee or the lien under mechanics' lien-laws, carriers' privilege, inn-keepers' privilege, etc. verb_ bestow a privilege upon, archaic To grant some particular right or exemption to; to invest with a peculiar right or immunity; to authorize; as, to privilege representatives from arrest, transitive verb_ To grant some particular right or exemption to; to invest with a peculiar right or immunity; to authorize, To bring or put into a condition of privilege or exemption from evil or danger; to exempt; to deliver

Of a peaceful nature; tranquil, the ocean between America and Asia, so called by Magellan, its first European navigator, on account of the exemption from violent tempests which he enjoyed while sailing over it; -- called also, simply, the Pacific, and, formerly, the South sea, disposed to peace or of a peaceful nature, noun_ the largest ocean in the world

The condition of being free from oppressive restriction or control by a government or other power, The state of being free, or exempt from external restraint or constraint, physical or moral; freedom; especially, exemption from opposition or irksome restraint of any kind, A privilege or license in violation of the laws of etiquette or propriety

Seemingly effortless beauty or charm of movement, form, or proportion, A disposition to be generous or helpful; goodwill, A temporary immunity or exemption; a reprieve, transitive verb_ To honor or favor, To give beauty, elegance, or charm to