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waiving

Variant of waive

transitive verb waived, waiving

  1. to give up or forgo (a right, claim, privilege, etc.)
  2. to refrain from insisting on or taking advantage of
  3. to put off until later; postpone; defer
  4. Law to forgo or relinquish voluntarily (a right, privilege, claim, etc. which one is legally entitled to enforce)
  5. Sports to put (a player) on waivers

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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