Usually means: Forgo a right or claim.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word waive:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. waive: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. waive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. waive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. waive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. waive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Waive, waive: Wordnik
  7. waive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. waive: Wiktionary
  9. waive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. waive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. waive: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. waive: Dictionary.com
  13. waive: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. waive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Waive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Waive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. waive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. waive: Rhymezone
  19. Waive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. waive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. waive: Free Dictionary
  22. waive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. waive: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. waive: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. waive: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  6. waive: Legal dictionary
  7. waive: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. waive: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. waive: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. waive: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Waive: Croquet

(Note: See waived as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive, law) To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forgo.
verb:  (particularly) To relinquish claim on a payment or fee which would otherwise be due.
verb:  (now rare) To put aside, avoid.
verb:  (obsolete) To outlaw (someone).
verb:  (obsolete) To abandon, give up (someone or something).
verb:  (obsolete) To move from side to side; to sway.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To stray, wander.
noun:  (obsolete, law) A woman put out of the protection of the law; an outlawed woman.
noun:  (obsolete) A waif; a castaway.

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