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waiver

UK/ˈweɪ.və(ɹ)/US/ˈweɪ.vɚ/
nounB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #8,476 of 15,258neutral

Other forms: waivers

A waiver is a formal giving up of a right or a claim. Sign a waiver, a waiver of liability, grant a waiver.

Signing one before an activity does not remove every protection: a waiver cannot excuse negligence in most legal systems, whatever the form says. It is spelled with an e and is not the same word as waver, meaning to hesitate.

Definitions of waiver

  1. 1nounwaiverA formal giving up of a right or a claim.B2+

    “Before the bungee jump, we had to sign a waiver saying we wouldn't sue if we got hurt.”

waiver is a legal document.

Where it comes from

Anglo-Norman weyver comes from waiver, to abandon a claim, from a Germanic root meaning to wander.

  1. Anglo-Norman

    weyver

  2. English, today

    waiver

From Anglo-Norman weyver, from waiver. Date: 1628. by surface analysis, waive + -er.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

waiver in the wild

  • If the suspect receives and understands the Miranda warnings and then voluntarily makes statements, those statements may be treated as establishing an implied waiver of those rights.

    Miranda v. Arizona

  • Other visa waivers exist for citizens of some neighboring or associated countries and territories.

    Visa Waiver Program

  • For example, a 2010 law restricted the size of banks, but when banks exceeded these sizes, they obtained waivers.

    Waiver

  • Virgin Islands, as well as to Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands with additional waivers, while similar but separate rules apply to American Samoa.

    Visa policy of the United States

  • The 48-nation NSG granted the waiver to India on September 6, 2008, allowing it to access civilian nuclear technology and fuel from other countries.

    India–United States Civil Nuclear Agreement

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the weyver family

waivewaiver

waiver — used about once every 3,490 pages · #8,476 · point at the bar for the others