disclaimer
Syllables: dis·claim·erUK/dɪsˈkleɪm.ə//dɪsˈkleɪm.ɚ/
disclaimer noun: one who disclaims, disowns, or renounces.
Noun
disclaimer (plural disclaimers)
- One who disclaims, disowns, or renounces.
- A public disavowal, as of responsibility, pretensions, claims, opinions, etc.
- A denial, disavowal, or renunciation, as of a title, claim, interest, estate, or trust; relinquishment or waiver of an interest or estate.
- Subject to the provisions of this section, any person who, after the commencement of this Act, succeeds to a peerage in the peerage of England, Scotland, Great Britain or the United Kingdom may, by an instrument of disclaimer delivered to the Lord Chancellor within the period prescribed by this...1963, Parliament of the United Kingdom, “section 1(1)”, in Peerage Act 1963ᵂⁱᵏⁱˢᵒᵘʳᶜᵉ, page 1
- A disclosure of an interest, relationship, or the like.
- It interviewed, among others, the director of Vasant Valley School, owned by the same family that part-owns Mail Today. No disclaimer was carried stating as much.May 10 2012, Anant Rangaswami, “No need for regulation in media – it’s happening by itself”, in Firstpost
- Though the fact that the two men do business together was disclosed on air, a recent op-ed penned by Lako and published on the Hannity show’s website had no such disclaimer.April 23 2018, Hallie Detrick, “What We Know About Sean Hannity's Shell Companies and Why It Matters”, in Fortune
Verb
disclaimer (third-person singular simple present disclaimers, present participle disclaimering, simple past and past participle disclaimered)
- To disclaim or disavow, as by appending a legal disclaimer.
- When you can hear your lover say that painful thing straight up, without a lot of disclaimering or softening to make sure that your feelings will be hurt as little as possible, […]2005, Raven Kaldera, Pagan Polyamory: Becoming a Tribe of Hearts, page 229
- Now that I have disclaimered myself, I can tell you the story of how one of the guards smoked Salvia divinorum and tripped balls for fifteen minutes […]2015, Evan Butler, Guardians of Life, page 45
disclaimer meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
disclaimer in Hindi
- अस्वीकरण, डिस्क्लेमर
disclaimer in Tamil
- பொறுப்பைத் துறத்தல், பொறுப்புத் துறப்பு, பொறுப்பு வரம்பு
disclaimer in Urdu
- ڈس کلیمر
disclaimer in Bengali
- দাবি পরিত্যাগী, ত্যাজনকারী, মানিতে অস্বীকারক
More languagesFewer languages
- disclaimer in Telugu
- ప్రకటన నిరాకరణ
- disclaimer in Malayalam
- നിരാകരണം nirākaraṇaṁ
- disclaimer in Kannada
- ಅಲ್ಲಗಳೆತ
- disclaimer in Gujarati
- અસ્વીકરણ
- disclaimer in Indonesian
- penyangkal, sangkalan, penafian
Examples of disclaimer in a sentence
- The AJC urged Warner Bros. to add a disclaimer to the movie.
- Scott shared backstage pre-show, stopping to issue the disclaimer that these theories already exist and live online.
- I want to caveat everything I say with the disclaimer that I was working from photos.
Forms of disclaimer
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | disclaimers |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | disclaimers |
| present participle | disclaimering |
| past participle | disclaimered |
| past | disclaimered |
Origin of disclaimer
Partly from Middle English discleymer, from Anglo-Norman desclamer; and partly from disclaim + -er.
Words that rhyme with disclaimer
Questions about disclaimer
- What does disclaimer mean?
- Disclaimer means one who disclaims, disowns, or renounces.
- What is disclaimer in Hindi?
- Disclaimer in Hindi is अस्वीकरण, डिस्क्लेमर. See Disclaimer meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is disclaimer?
- Disclaimer can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce disclaimer?
- Disclaimer is pronounced /dɪsˈkleɪm.ɚ/ (US).
- What is the plural of disclaimer?
- The plural of disclaimer is disclaimers.
Words near disclaimer in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: disclaimer (page history and authors); disclaimer (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); disclaimer (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); disclaimer (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); disclaimer (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); disclaimer (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); disclaimer (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); disclaimer (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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