waive

transitive verb

To give up (a claim or right, for example) voluntarily; relinquish. synonym: relinquish.

transitive verb

To refrain from insisting on or enforcing (a rule, penalty, or requirement, for example); dispense with.

transitive verb

To refrain from engaging in, sometimes temporarily; cancel or postpone.

transitive verb

To place (a player) on waivers.

noun

A waif; a poor homeless wretch; a castaway.

noun

In law, a woman put out of the protection of the law.

To refuse; forsake; decline; shun.

To move; remove; push aside.

To relinquish; forsake; forbear to insist on or claim; defer for the present; forgo: as, to waive a subject; to waive a claim or privilege.

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