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Princeton's WordNet

  1. waive, relinquish, forgo, forego, foreswear, dispense withverb

    do without or cease to hold or adhere to

    "We are dispensing with formalities"; "relinquish the old ideas"

  2. forfeit, give up, throw overboard, waive, forgo, foregoverb

    lose (s.th.) or lose the right to (s.th.) by some error, offense, or crime

    "you've forfeited your right to name your successor"; "forfeited property"

Wikipedia

  1. waive

    A waiver is the voluntary relinquishment or surrender of some known right or privilege. Regulatory agencies of state departments or the federal government may issue waivers to exempt companies from certain regulations. For example, a United States law restricted the size of banks, but when banks exceeded these sizes, they obtained waivers. In another example, the United States federal government may issue waivers to individual states so that they may provide Medicaid in different ways than the law typically requires.While a waiver is often in writing, sometimes a person's words can also be used as a counteract to a waiver. An example of a written waiver is a disclaimer, which becomes a waiver when accepted. When the right to hold a person liable through a lawsuit is waived, the waiver may be called an exculpatory clause, liability waiver, legal release, or hold harmless clause. In some cases, parties may sign a "non-waiver" contract which specifies that no rights are waived, particularly if a person's actions may suggest that rights are being waived. This is particularly common in insurance. Sometimes the elements of "voluntary" and "known" are established by a legal fiction. In this case, one is presumed to know one's rights and that those rights are voluntarily relinquished if not asserted at the time. In civil procedure, certain arguments must be raised in the first objection that a party submits to the court, or else they will be deemed waived.

ChatGPT

  1. waive

    To waive means to voluntarily relinquish, give up, or choose not to exercise a right, claim, or privilege. This action is often done formally, in writing, but can also result from actions or verbal agreements. For example, someone might waive their right to sue by signing a waiver form, or waive a fee by not charging someone.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Waiveverb

    a waif; a castaway

  2. Waiveverb

    a woman put out of the protection of the law. See Waive, v. t., 3 (b), and the Note

  3. Waiveverb

    to relinquish; to give up claim to; not to insist on or claim; to refuse; to forego

  4. Waiveverb

    to throw away; to cast off; to reject; to desert

  5. Waiveverb

    to throw away; to relinquish voluntarily, as a right which one may enforce if he chooses

  6. Waiveverb

    to desert; to abandon

  7. Waiveverb

    to turn aside; to recede

  8. Etymology: [See Waive, v. t. ]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Waive

    wāv, v.t. to relinquish for the present: to give up claim to: not to insist on a right or claim.—n. Wai′ver, the act of waiving: renouncement of a claim: process by which a woman was outlawed. [O. Fr. guever, to refuse, resign—perh. Ice. veifa, to move to and fro; cf. L. vibrāre.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of waive in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of waive in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of waive in a Sentence

  1. Hardik Shah:

    A possible solution is to waive the goods and services tax (GST) compensation cess..on coal.

  2. Behnam Ben Taleblu:

    It's absolutely true that the protests in Iran are affecting the calculus over the decision to waive sanctions on Tehran.

  3. Donald Trump on Thursday:

    If Al Gore and George Bush had agreed three weeks before the election to concede the results and waive their right to a legal challenge or a recount, then there would be no Supreme Court case, i’m being asked to waive centuries of legal precedent designed to protect the voters.

  4. Jaime Rodriguez:

    Our government is being completely open, but we can't waive their (taxes) for 20 years if they're going to put me in prison for allowing it.

  5. Robert Carter:

    The way the case got from general session to circuit court was via criminal information, the criminal information is when a defendant will waive his or her right to be presented to the grand jury and that’s what happened here, so the case goes from general sessions to circuit court directly via the criminal information, and then that general sessions case has to be disposed of so the circuit court case can be handled, which is exactly what happened here on the same date.

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