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US
/ˈweɪvɝ/
]
[ UK /wˈeɪvɐ/ ]
[ UK /wˈeɪvɐ/ ]
NOUN
- a formal written statement of relinquishment
How To Use waiver In A Sentence
- After a long briefing, extra liability waivers had to be signed.
- As financial secretary in 2007, he handed out income tax rebates and property-rate waivers, earning him the nickname of "tong tong," a term for sweets, from the local press. BusinessWeek.com -- Top News
- I will also be given an excess luggage waiver. Times, Sunday Times
- At the rental desk you may face pressure to buy excess waiver insurance, which can more than double the price. Times, Sunday Times
- It has nothing to do with that fact that he signs a legal document, a donor waiver agreement - that's just a piece of paper.
- Silence or mere lack of objection does not constitute a lawful waiver.
- The Penguins also added some missing toughness, claiming right wing Craig Adams off waivers from the Chicago Blackhawks. Penguins land Guerin, Adams in deadline deals
- Earlier this year PBS distributed to its affiliates only the expurgated version of A Company of Soldiers, a Frontline documentary about American forces in Iraq, because of concerns that obscenities shouted by military personnel during an ambush might bring censure from the FCC; it released the unbleeped version only to those local stations willing to sign waivers absolving PBS of liability for any fines. Fatwa City
- Many schools now receive waivers to the rule. Houston Chronicle
- This principle is mainly applied to two kinds of situations: negotiorum gestio and donation, and principle of waiver and estoppel.