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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Subject to an obligation, duty, or liability, especially subject to taxation.
  • adjective Subject to certain federal workplace laws or protections, especially those requiring overtime compensation.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Not exempt; subject to (some specified) rule. Opposite of exempt.
  • adjective (U. S. Labor Law) Not exempt from the provisions of the fair labor practises act; -- a term applied mostly to persons who are hourly employees, who are required by law to be treated in certain ways. Many salaried and management personnnel are not covered by the law and are therefore exempt.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Not exempt.
  • adjective law Subject to taxation; not within any category of income to which taxes are not applied.
  • noun One who is not exempt.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective (of goods or funds) subject to taxation
  • adjective (of persons) not exempt from an obligation or liability

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Examples

  • Applying the salary and duties tests together, the survey found that 95 percent of respondents should be classified as nonexempt and paid on an hourly basis with overtime pay.

    Jonathan Tasini: How Big Media Breaks The Law On "Survivor" Island 2008

  • The company also said it is increasing the amount of shares each hourly, or "nonexempt," employee can receive under an existing incentive program, from 20 to 50 shares.

    Intel to Let Workers Exchange Options 2009

  • Covered "nonexempt" employees must be paid overtime rates of one and one-half times the regular pay rate for any hours over 40 in a 7-day period.

    LewRockwell.com 2009

  • Six of the eight Ivies do; Yale University pays more than $8 million in lieu of taxes to the city of New Haven, Conn., along with paying $4 million on some nonexempt property, according to New Haven.

    Providence to College: Pay Up Jennifer Levitz 2012

  • The city also plans to freeze wages for executive and nonexempt workers in 2010.

    Archive 2009-08-01 2009

  • The city also plans to freeze wages for executive and nonexempt workers in 2010.

    City of Aurora Approves Exit Strategy for 37 Employees 2009

  • The city also will freeze wages next year for executive and nonexempt workers and is looking for ways to cut health insurance costs that could result in higher payments for those employees.

    Archive 2009-07-01 2009

  • Banks say it isn't their job to see if the money is exempt, and that the benefits often are commingled with nonexempt money.

    New Treasury Rules to Protect Benefits Ellen E. Schultz 2010

  • Banks say it isn't their job to see if the money is exempt, and that the benefits often are commingled with nonexempt money.

    New Treasury Rules to Protect Benefits Ellen E. Schultz 2010

  • Banks say it isn't their job to see if the money is exempt, and that the benefits often are commingled with nonexempt money.

    New Treasury Rules to Protect Benefits Ellen E. Schultz 2010

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