Waive

/weɪv/ · verb

Meaning

(transitive, law) To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forgo..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive, law) To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forgo.
2. (now rare) To put aside, avoid.
3. (obsolete) To outlaw (someone).
4. (obsolete) To abandon, give up (someone or something).
5. (obsolete) To move from side to side; to sway.
6. (intransitive, obsolete) To stray, wander.
7. (obsolete, law) A woman put out of the protection of the law; an outlawed woman.
8. (obsolete) A waif; a castaway.

Example Sentences

If you waive the right to be silent, anything you say can be used against you in a court of law.

Exhibiting what the dramatic critics call a "fine restraint," he waives his timely opportunity for discourse upon the celebrated gyascutus, which, as any Northwestern tourist will tell you, haunts the slopes of the most precipitous mountains—always evading capture because its legs, shorter on the one side of the body than on the other, are peculiarly adapted to scooting up an inclined plane.

The federal government will ban the import of live northern snakeheads beginning Friday, waiving the normal 30-day waiting period

While there’s no reliable data on micro-housing, some notable policies and projects are popping up on that front too. Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg waived the city’s zoning standards to allow micro-apartments.

[…] seeing in many such occasions of common life we advisedly do renounce or waive our own opinions, absolutely yielding to the direction of others

but she might be waived, and held as abandoned.

But vvhat a vvretched, and diſconſolate Hermitage is that Houſe, vvhich is not viſited by thee [God], and vvhat a VVayue, and Stray is that Man, that hath not thy Markes vpon him?

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