waiving

Verb

waive (third-person singular simple present waives, present participle waiving, simple past and past participle waived)

1. (transitive) To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forgo.
   • If you waive the right to be silent, anything you say can be used against you in a court of law.
   1. (transitive, particularly) To relinquish claim on a payment or fee which would otherwise be due.
   2. (Canada, US, transitive) To release [a player] onto the waiver wire
      • Nearly 1,200 players will be cut, waived, or sent packing, and the scramble to land on a practice squad or catch on elsewhere will move fast.2025 August 24, Ryan Miller, “NFL roster cuts 2025: What to know about 53-man deadline, waivers, and practice squads”, in Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
2. (archaic) To put aside, avoid.
   • […] seeing in many such occasions of common life we advisedly do renounce or waive our own opinions, absolutely yielding to the direction of othersa. 1683, Isaac Barrow, Sermon LIX, “Of obedience to our spiritual guides and governors”
3. (obsolete) To outlaw (someone).
4. (obsolete) To abandon, give up (someone or something).
   • but she might be waived, and held as abandoned.1851, Alexander Mansfield Burrill, Law Dictionary and Glossary

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