Immunity

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  • noun. The quality or condition of being immune.
  • noun. Inherited, acquired, or induced resistance to infection by a specific pathogen.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Exemption from certain generally applicable requirements of law or from certain liabilities, granted to special groups of people to facilitate the performance of their public functions.
  • noun. Exemption from prosecution granted to a witness to compel him or her to give potentially self-incriminating testimony that otherwise could not be compelled because of the constitutional right against self-incrimination.
  • noun. Exemption from being sued.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Exemption from obligation or responsibility in any respect, conferred by law or a sovereign act; freedom from legal liability; an exemption conferred, as from public service or charges, or from penalty for any particular act or course of conduct; hence, special privilege; liberty to do or refrain from doing any particular thing.
  • noun. Exemption from any natural or usual liability.
  • noun. In eccles. usage, the exemption of certain sacred places and ecclesiastical personages from secular burdens and functions, and from acts regarded as repugnant to their sanctity.
  • noun. See the quotation.
  • noun. In pathology, a lack or absence of susceptibility to disease. This may be either natural or acquired.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Freedom or exemption from any charge, duty, obligation, office, tax, imposition, penalty, or service; a particular privilege
  • noun. Freedom; exemption.
  • noun. The state of being insusceptible to disease, certain poisons, etc.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The state of being insusceptible to something; notably:
  • noun. A resistance to a specific thing.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the quality of being unaffected by something
  • noun. an act exempting someone
  • noun. the state of not being susceptible
  • noun. (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease
  • Word Usage
    "The High Court found that the expert had immunity but the Court of Appeal allowed the GMC's appeal, finding that an expert had no ­immunity from disciplinary proceedings."
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