Waive Definition

wāv
waived, waives, waiving
verb
waived, waives, waiving
To give up or forgo (a right, claim, privilege, etc.)
Webster's New World
To refrain from insisting on or taking advantage of.
Webster's New World
To refrain from insisting on or enforcing (a rule, penalty, or requirement, for example); dispense with.
American Heritage
To refrain from engaging in, sometimes temporarily; cancel or postpone.
Let's waive our discussion of that problem.
American Heritage
To put off until later; postpone; defer.
Webster's New World
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noun

(obsolete, law) A woman put out of the protection of the law; an outlawed woman.

Wiktionary

(obsolete) A waif; a castaway.

Wiktionary

Obsolete form of waif.

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Waive

Noun

Singular:
waive
Plural:
waives

Origin of Waive

  • Middle English weiven to abandon from Anglo-Norman weyver from waif ownerless property waif1

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Middle English weyven, from Old Norse veifa (“to wave, swing") (Norwegian veiva), from Proto-Germanic *waibijanÄ….

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English weyven, from Anglo-Norman weyver (“to abandon, allow to become a waif"), from weyf (“waif").

    From Wiktionary

  • From Anglo-Norman waive, probably as the past participle of weyver, as Etymology 1, above.

    From Wiktionary

  • Variant forms.

    From Wiktionary

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