MEANING
1. To voluntarily give up a right, claim, or privilege that one could otherwise exercise.
2. To decide not to demand or enforce a fee, rule, condition, or requirement.
Use it for
A person gives up a right or an authority declines to enforce a rule or fee.Useful for writing about rights, obligations, exceptions, policies, and deliberate concessions.
On the page
She waived her right to appeal the ruling.
Word forms
- Base
- waive
- Past tense
- waived
- Past participle
- waived
- Present participle
- waiving
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- waive
- Present continuous
- am/is/are waiving
- Present perfect
- have/has waived
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been waiving
- Past
- waived
- Past continuous
- was/were waiving
- Past perfect
- had waived
- Past perfect continuous
- had been waiving
- Future
- will waive
- Future continuous
- will be waiving
- Future perfect
- will have waived
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been waiving
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