Waiver

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Intentional relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege.
  • n. The document that evidences such relinquishment.
  • n. A dispensation, as from a rule or penalty.
  • n. Permission for a professional athletic club to assign a player to the minor leagues or release a player from the club, granted only after all other clubs have been given the opportunity to claim the player and have not done so.
  • n. A deferment.
  • idiom. clear waivers To be unclaimed by another professional club and therefore liable to be assigned to a minor-league club or released.
  • idiom. on waivers In a state of being available for claiming by other professional clubs.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The act of waiving, or not insisting on, some right, claim, or privilege.
  • n. A legal document releasing some requirement, such as waiving a right (giving it up) or a waiver of liability (agreeing to hold someone blameless). Also used for such a form even before it is filled out and signed.
  • n. Something that releases a person from a requirement.
  • v. Common misspelling of waver.
  • v. See waive.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of waiving, or not insisting on, some right, claim, or privilege.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In law:
  • n. The act of waiving; the intentional relinquishment of a known right; the passing by or declining to accept a thing.
  • n. In old English law, the legal process by which a woman was waived, or put out of the protection of the law.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a formal written statement of relinquishment
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    waivered   
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    Laver    aver    baver    braver    caver    craver    disfavor    engraver    favor    flavor   
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