| 释义 |
[ weyv ] / weɪv / SEE SYNONYMS FOR waive ON THESAURUS.COM
verb (used with object), waived, waiv·ing.to refrain from claiming or insisting on; give up; forgo: to waive one's right; to waive one's rank; to waive honors. Law. to relinquish (a known right, interest, etc.) intentionally. to put aside for the time; defer; postpone; dispense with: to waive formalities. to put aside or dismiss from consideration or discussion: waiving my attempts to explain. Origin of waive1250–1300; Middle English weyven<Anglo-French weyver to make a waif (of someone) by forsaking or outlawing (him or her) SYNONYMS FOR waive1 resign, renounce, surrender, remit. SEE SYNONYMS FOR waive ON THESAURUS.COM ANTONYMS FOR waiveSEE ANTONYMS FOR waive ON THESAURUS.COM OTHER WORDS FROM waiveun·waived, adjectiveWORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH waivewaive , waveWords nearby waivewaitressing, waitron, waitstaff, wait up, Waitz, waive, waiver, waiver of premium, Wajda, waka, Wakamatsu Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for waiveFrancis opted to waive the requisite second miracle for John XXIII usually needed for non-martyrs to reach sainthood. Popes, Saints, Miracles, Weird Relics and Odd Omens Converge on Rome|Barbie Latza Nadeau|April 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST Most of the defendants had been convinced to waive their right to a lawyer. ‘Kids for Cash’: Crooked Judge, Damaged Teens, and the Perils of Zero Tolerance|Ronald K. Fried|February 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST But now Yanukovych has signaled that he refuses to waive even a bit of his power. Ukraine’s Bloody Crackdown Enters Its Third Day|Oleg Shynkarenko|February 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST Hastert stopped short of saying Boehner should waive the Hastert Rule. Denny Hastert Disses the ‘Hastert Rule’: It ‘Never Really Existed’|Eleanor Clift|October 3, 2013|DAILY BEAST
That vote will surely go along party lines, meaning the committee will decide that she did waive them, but so what? The Continuing Fizzle of the IRS Scandal|Michael Tomasky|June 27, 2013|DAILY BEAST The seizing of the urea by the kidney cell is a vital phenomenon which we must waive for the moment. The Story of the Living Machine|H. W. Conn He had a right to doubt there, which he was willing to waive. The Whirligig of Time|Wayland Wells Williams It remains for us, therefore, to waive the salutation in this instance. The Prince of India, Volume I|Lew. Wallace If you would like to sign it, you can; if you want to waive signing it, you can also. Warren Commission (6 of 26): Hearings Vol. VI (of 15)|The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy Said another: "The waive note is good for twenty years and when you sign one you must either pay out or die out." A Social History of The American Negro|Benjamin Brawley
British Dictionary definitions for waive
verb (tr)to set aside or relinquishto waive one's right to something to refrain from enforcing (a claim) or applying (a law, penalty, etc) to defer Word Origin for waiveC13: from Old Northern French weyver, from waif abandoned; see waif Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to waiverelinquish, hand over, suspend, defer, renounce, grant, put off, shelve, forgo, turn over, remove, allow, reject, abandon, postpone, surrender, set aside, cede, resign, disclaim |