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waive Verb

— When you waive one of your rights, you decide not to use it; you choose to give it up. Because A'isha knew she had done nothing wrong, she decided to waive her right to have a lawyer with her and just tell the policeman what happened. Before we went parachuting, the company made us waive our rights to sue them if one of us got hurt. — If somebody waives something for you, you do not have to do something that is usually required. The government usually requires people to learn English in order to become citizens. However, if a person is elderly and has been in the country a long time, the government may waive this requirement.

waive

— verb (= relinquish, dispense with) do without or cease to hold or adhere to We are dispensing with formalities relinquish the old ideas — verb (= forfeit) lose (s.th.) or lose the right to (s.th.) by some error, offense, or crime you've forfeited your right to name your successor forfeited property

Synonyms waive synonyms

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waive English » English

relinquish forgo give up renounce forego abandon foreswear dispense with disclaim quit put away forfeit throw overboard take off surrender put off put down lay give expose abnegate unmake undo tergiversate take away take sign away seize scrap rid resign rescind repeal renunciation remove remise relinquish to postpone part with lapse kidnap ignore go without get rid of exempt exclude by convention dump drop out do away with divest

Topics waive topics

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Language and thought Want Ask permission

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Conjugation waive conjugation

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waive · verb

Examples waive examples

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Your Honor, we waive preliminary examinations since we intend to plead guilty to both charges.
Your Honor, we waive further reading.
Your Honor, we waive time for sentence. We're ready for sentence now.
You waive the reading of the complaint?
Do you realize you waive all your legal rights in this marriage?
The defendant will waive reading of the information and stand mute.
I'll waive the release.
To make you sign a paper where it's written that all of you waive your share.
Sir, I waive counsel.
Further, I waive rights to this hearing and request immediate court martial.
I don't wish to pry into such a delicate matter with all respect for Mademoiselle's feelings, but it's my duty to waive considerations of delicacy.
In the circumstances, we waive that right.
We'll waive minutes and proceed directly with charges against Delta Tau Chi.
Gentlemen, we all know this is illegal and against club practice and I'd like to ask at this time if you all agree to waive all sanction against said referee or anything that might get me fired.
Got the marriage license. The judge'll waive the 3-day wait.
Further, I waive rights to this hearing and request immediate court-martial.
I want you to waive Florian voluntarily.
Gentlemen, we all know this is illegal and against Club practice and I'd like to ask at this time if you all agree to waive all sanction against said referee or anything that might get me fired.
I have been advised by our public relations department to waive all charges of kidnapping, and smuggling illegal aliens into a foreign country.
Do you wish to waive the right to a pre-sentence hearing?
Even if His Majesty could waive all other considerations he has a duty to the millions of his Muslim subjects who are a minority in this realm.
I can offer to waive my claim.
I'll waive my commissions till we get rolling, that's all.
Then I. before all. I waive my share, and I transfer this stone to the people of Town.
I want to pace up and down, waive my arms, bang on tables, And be overruled and all that lawyer stuff.
I told you I'd waive my fee.
I waive that right.
Now, bottom line, we just want to know who can waive that privilege.
And that would give you the authority to waive the doctor and patient privilege.
You know that when your sister vocation was certainly felt because what God asked at that time was also waive many things?
Yes. - You're willing to waive that right?
As the United States attorney for eastern Louisiana, I waive venue.

News and current affairs

But a society's decision to waive punishment for human rights violators is not necessarily a sign that its moral awareness remains stunted.
But investment agreements like those backed by the US demand that developing countries waive this presumption and permit the adjudication of suits according to procedures that fall far short of those expected in twenty-first-century democracies.
He is also weighing whether to change the current Constitutional Court into a Supreme Court to which citizens could appeal under some conditions, and whether to waive the president's authority to preside over the High Council of the Judiciary.
And if you have rights you must be able to waive them.

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