waiver
IPA: wˈeɪvɝ
noun
- The act of waiving, or not insisting on, some right, claim, or privilege.
- (law) A legal document removing some requirement, such as waiving a right (giving it up) or a waiver of liability (agreeing to hold someone blameless).
- Something that releases a person from a requirement.
- (obsolete) The process of waiving or outlawing a person.
verb
- (transitive) To waive (to relinquish, to forego).
- Misspelling of waver. [(intransitive) To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.]
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Examples of "waiver" in Sentences
- The next issue is that of waiver.
- He brought the waiver to the court.
- The player was then exposed to the waiver.
- They picked Brickley up in the waiver draft.
- The club seems to waiver back and forth on the issue.
- In 1987, the Boston Bruins picked him up in the waiver draft.
- Insofar as the images go I created them and agreed to the waiver.
- And he also receives Medicaid through what we call a waiver program.
- As a senator, Al Gore was the most vociferous critic of these waivers.
- I think it belongs in the section on proposals to strengrhen the waiver.
- Such intentional action may take the form of a discontinuance or a waiver.
- Mr. Lewis is pushing hard for the job, which would require GOP leaders to grant him a waiver from the term limit.
- She said the company asked for a waiver from the law's restrictions on annual limits two weeks ago and received it within 48 hours.
- He said trainers are required to sign what he called a "waiver" stating they recognize that "their own skills are key to being safe."
- The Clean Air Act (written by Congress) requires any state that wants to exceed Federal air standards to obtain a waiver from the EPA.
- Even if we assume that a waiver is available to indigent defendants, that strikes me as highly unfair and so it must be unconstitutional somehow.
- If the waiver is agreed-to by the next sitting president (in excercise of his inherent authority to conduct US foreign policy) it wont matter who controls congress.
- QUESTION: My question is we have health insurance, we have through my husband's job -- actually, my husband works two full time jobs to help provide for our family and I work fee for service and he also receives Medicaid through what we call a waiver program.
- To be eligible for the award, a service member must be: attached to or regularly serving for one or more days with an organization participating in ground/shore military operations; attached to or regularly serving for one or more days aboard a naval vessel directly supporting military operations; actually participating as a crew member in one or more aerial flights directly supporting military operations in the areas designated; or serving on temporary duty for 30 consecutive days or 60 nonconsecutive days, except, if a waiver is authorized for personnel participating in actual combat.