as in to deny
to officially say that you will not use or require something that you are allowed to have or that is usually required
She waived her right to a lawyer. The university waives the application fee for low-income students.
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Recent Examples of waive
The assistance plan would also waive any interest left after a borrower makes their payment, which means borrowers would no longer see their loans grow.
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Brittney Melton, NPR, 15 May 2025
On the first Monday of the month, the health department waives that $20 fee for qualifying children under the age of 2.
—Sofi Zeman, Kansas City Star, 13 May 2025
While the balance assistance being offered helps by waiving some unpaid interest and providing modest matching for payments to principal, the plan stops far short of the Biden-era plan to wipe out $189 billion in unpaid loans.
—Matt Fleming, Oc Register, 10 May 2025
Emphatically waiving for no goal on a puck that hits the center of the net.
—Daniel Nugent-Bowman, New York Times, 10 May 2025
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Brittney Melton, NPR, 15 May 2025
On the first Monday of the month, the health department waives that $20 fee for qualifying children under the age of 2.
—Sofi Zeman, Kansas City Star, 13 May 2025
While the balance assistance being offered helps by waiving some unpaid interest and providing modest matching for payments to principal, the plan stops far short of the Biden-era plan to wipe out $189 billion in unpaid loans.
—Matt Fleming, Oc Register, 10 May 2025
Emphatically waiving for no goal on a puck that hits the center of the net.
—Daniel Nugent-Bowman, New York Times, 10 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for waive
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At the very least, there’s no denying that Stewart has artistic conviction.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
23 May 2025
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The Boise City Council denied that appeal in April in a 4-1 vote, with Council Member Luci Willits the lone dissenter.—
Nick Rosenberger,
Idaho Statesman,
23 May 2025
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Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people to a South Carolina museum devoted to African American history as part of a settlement with one of the subjects’ descendants.—
Leah Willingham,
Christian Science Monitor,
28 May 2025
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Despite bipartisan and nearly unequivocal support for Gypsum Canyon in the intervening four years, Agran has refused to relinquish his goal of completing a veterans cemetery in Irvine.—
Jonathan Horwitz,
Oc Register,
28 May 2025
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