Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth 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.
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.
Wiktionary
- n. The act of waiving, or not insisting on, some right, claim, or privilege.
- n. law 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.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Law) The act of waiving, or not insisting on, some right, claim, or privilege.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a formal written statement of relinquishment
Etymologies
- Anglo-Norman weyver, from waiver Date: 1628 (Wiktionary)
- Anglo-Norman weyver, from weyver, to abandon; see waive. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Even if we assume that a waiver is available to indigent defendants, that strikes me as highly unfair and so it must be unconstitutional somehow.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Standing and Ripeness in State Lawsuits:
“If the waiver is agreed-to by the next sitting president (in excercise of his inherent authority to conduct US foreign policy) it wont matter who controls congress.”
Think Progress » Source to Stephanopoulos: President Bush Directly Involved In Leak Scandal
“And he also receives Medicaid through what we call a waiver program.”
“QUESTION: My question is we have health insurance, we have through my husband's job -- actually, my husband works two full time jobs to help provide for our family and I work fee for service and he also receives Medicaid through what we call a waiver program.”
“He said trainers are required to sign what he called a "waiver" stating they recognize that "their own skills are key to being safe.”
“To be eligible for the award, a service member must be: attached to or regularly serving for one or more days with an organization participating in ground/shore military operations; attached to or regularly serving for one or more days aboard a naval vessel directly supporting military operations; actually participating as a crew member in one or more aerial flights directly supporting military operations in the areas designated; or serving on temporary duty for 30 consecutive days or 60 nonconsecutive days, except, if a waiver is authorized for personnel participating in actual combat.”
“Mr. Lewis is pushing hard for the job, which would require GOP leaders to grant him a waiver from the term limit.”
“She said the company asked for a waiver from the law's restrictions on annual limits two weeks ago and received it within 48 hours.”
The Washington Post: Shocker: Wall Street Journal "flat out wrong"
“The Clean Air Act (written by Congress) requires any state that wants to exceed Federal air standards to obtain a waiver from the EPA.”
Matthew Yglesias » Right-Wing Rediscovers Threat of Executive Power
“That is, usually the senate votes to waive the relevant provision of budget act, implying that a waiver is required (that the action to be taken does in fact run afoul of the 1974 Budget Act).”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Slaughter Solution constitutional?
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