0 past simple and past participle of waive --
1 to not demand something you have a right to, or not cause a rule to be obeyed: --
In these joint ventures, the local partner often had military ties and influence, so that conditions imposed by the technocrats were often waived in practice.
Even if the moral right to receive aid were waived, the moral duty to give aid would still rest on that distinct non-rights-based foundation.
When data showed an obvious preference by the insect between plant species, the statistical test was waived.
Workers should have to give express consent to their rights being waived.
Under the new rules, pension contributions were waived for minimum wage earners.
However, none of them has waived its right to calculate risk-related premiums.
But his liberty-right is still being exercised in the one direction - it is not being waived altogether.
We might say that its exercise in the other direction is being waived.
