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.
- 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.
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