immunity
173
4.9
- noun
- /ɪˈmjunɪti/
- Formal
:
inmunidad
- That alone warrants total immunity from prosecution
- sovereign immunity
- diplomatic immunity
- immunity from prosecution
Now this is a court that couldn't move on the immunity case for nine months.
- Now this is a court that couldn't move on the immunity case for nine months.
- Well, OK, she turned state's evidence and gets total immunity.
- The Supreme Court enabled him by saying you have immunity.
- A plea deal that gives immunity beyond the individual to unnamed individuals.
- And right now considering whether a president has absolute presidential immunity.
- And instead of providing stimulus checks, corporations are getting legal immunity from from liability from COVID.
- And if that person choose to go to trial right then, now they're going to offer you immunity, which is another reduction in your sentence.
- She claimed diplomatic immunity, which many diplomats have.
- Don't they have, like, diplomatic immunity?
Examples
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His convictions, however, were vacated, since his testimony had been protected under an earlier grant of immunity.
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I have immunity from the US Attorney.
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He'll name names if you grant him immunity on the murder charge.
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Full immunity and I'll talk.
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You put everything on the record, you get immunity in exchange for your testimony.
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If she is willing to cooperate, if she will say what we want her to say, then we will grant her immunity.
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In each case, the Court found that the immunity of the Federal Government prevented such taxation.
Academic text (2017) -
Now this is a court that couldn't move on the immunity case for nine months.
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Now, I want you to locate Crisp's wife and offer her immunity in exchange for her testimony against him.
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The judges granted her immunity from prosecution in exchange for her valuable testimony.
Synonyms
974
1.0
Keeping people or things safe from harm
489
1.1
Not having to do something a rule requires
73
5.1
Official permission that frees someone from a rule or duty
Protection that stops a public official being sued for actions taken while doing their job
Compounds
- Specialized
15
7.4
A special legal status that stops foreign diplomats from being tried or taxed in the country where they work
- Formal
6
5.6
Official action that stops police or courts from charging someone for a crime
- Specialized
4
3.6
The body's protection from disease that a person has naturally without a vaccine or previous infection
- Formal
1
8.9
A legal protection that stops a witness's forced testimony or evidence from being used to find them guilty
- Specialized
1
4.2
Protection the body develops after meeting a disease or getting a vaccine to prevent future sickness
- Specialized
Protection your body makes using antibodies after an infection or vaccine
- Specialized
Natural protection from disease present at birth without prior exposure
- Specialized
The body's natural defense giving stronger responses after earlier exposure or vaccines
- Specialized
Natural protection against some diseases in many people of the same race or ethnic group
- Formal
Protection that stops a public official being sued for actions taken while doing their job
- Specialized
Temporary protection from disease by receiving antibodies from another person or animal
- Formal
Protection that stops a court using a witness's forced answers or evidence from those answers against them
How Exempt
11
8.1
- Formal
173
4.9
- Informal
18
4.2
26
4.6
37
4.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Immunity comes from the Latin immunis, built from im- 'not' and munis 'duty', the same root that is behind the idea of a community of people with shared duties. That's why in law immunity means an official 'freedom' or 'exemption' from a duty, penalty, or legal action.