Sekirov Dictionary

waive

/weɪv/

verb 8
noun 2
forms 5

verb8

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To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forgo.
- If you waive the right to be silent, anything you say can be used against you in a court of law.
To relinquish claim on a payment or fee which would otherwise be due.
•
(US, Canada) To release [a player] onto the waiver wire
- Nearly 1,200 players will be cut, waived, or sent packing, and the scramble to land on a practice squad or catch on elsewhere will move fast. — 2025
•
(no longer used) To put aside, avoid.
- […] seeing in many such occasions of common life we advisedly do renounce or waive our own opinions, absolutely yielding to the direction of others — 1683
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(no longer used) To abandon, give up (someone or something).
- but she might be waived, and held as abandoned. — 1851
(no longer used) To outlaw (someone).
(no longer used) To move from side to side; to sway.
(no longer used) To stray, wander.

noun2

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(no longer used) A waif; a castaway.
- 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? — 1624
(no longer used) A woman put out of the protection of the law; an outlawed woman.

forms

waived · waiving · waives · waiveth · waivest

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