immunity
IPA: ɪmjˈunʌti
noun
- (uncountable) The state of being insusceptible to something; notably:
- (medicine) Protective resistance against disease.
- (law) An exemption from specified duties, such as payments or services.
- (law) An exemption from prosecution.
- (religion) An exemption from penance.
- (in games and competitions) An exemption given to a player from losing or being withdrawn from play.
- (countable) A resistance to a specific thing.
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Examples of "immunity" in Sentences
- The rising immunity terminates the infection.
- One was the buildup of immunity of the population.
- United's alliance with US Airways, because it does not have antitrust immunity, is mainly promotional.
- … If it is, if it is kept up with the IAEA inspections, it gets immunity from the massive nuclear retaliation.
- Diplomatic immunity is only granted to recognized diplomats from countries whose sovereignty have been recognized.
- It seems to us to be urgent, because the Iranians are deliberately drifting into what we call an immunity zone where practically no surgical operation could block them.
- 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.
- "It seems to us to be urgent, because the Iranians are deliberately drifting into what we call an immunity zone where practically no surgical operation could block them."
- "It seems to us to be urgent, because the Iranians are deliberately drifting into what we call an immunity zone where practically no surgical operation could block them," he said.
- In January, Greenwald reports, Olbermann delivered an unhinged rant in which he called the immunity provision a "shameless, breathless, literally textbook example of fascism" -- and in case you thought he meant the nongenocidal Italian kind, he also likened proponents of immunity to "the bureaucrats of the Third Reich."
- Just as a healthy body may gain immunity from a disease by being inoculated with a mild form of it, so Christian thought was immunized against the false doctrines which threatened to destroy it, three centuries later, by its inoculation with the dying germs of Orientalism which it had encountered, and triumphed over, at Toulouse.