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  • She waived her rights and answered the policeman's questions.
    waived = did not enforce
  • I played football with the boys, who would waive their guys-only rule and let me join a team if they were short a player.   (source)
    waive = not enforce
  • The treaty waived the right of former POWs and their families to seek reparations from Japan and Japanese companies that had profited from their enslavement.   (source)
    waived = gave up
  • And now, there is the small matter of my consultation fee—heh-heh. I'm thinking I'll waive it in exchange for a small favor.   (source)
    waive = not enforce (not collect)
  • Dr. Johnson said, "Your mother has decided to waive your right to appeal."   (source)
    waive = give up
  • According to Susan Kezios, president of the American Franchise Association, the contracts offered by fast food chains often require a franchisee to waive his or her legal right to file complaints under state law;   (source)
  • And the University of Michigan waived the fees for in-state students who couldn't afford to pay.   (source)
    waived = not enforce (not collect)
  • He had a rare congenital heart defect, which a team of surgeons fixed, waiving their fees.   (source)
    waiving = not enforcing (not collecting)
  • He says his client will agree to waive everything and get it over with.   (source)
    waive = not enforce
  • Do you waive the formal reading of the indictment?   (source)
    waive = not enforce the right of
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  • Surely they waive the tuition when fathers die.   (source)
    waive = do not enforce (not collect)
  • There was a question just now, Mr. Jaggers, which you desired me to waive for a moment.   (source)
    waive = not insist on
  • In as short a time as Mr. Collins's long speeches would allow, everything was settled between them to the satisfaction of both; and as they entered the house he earnestly entreated her to name the day that was to make him the happiest of men; and though such a solicitation must be waived for the present, the lady felt no inclination to trifle with his happiness.   (source)
    waived = not insisted on
  • When Deborah officially divorced Pullum in 2006, she had to itemize her income as part of a request for the judge to waive her filing fee.†   (source)
  • If the defendants waive right to jury trial and enter a plea of guilty before the judge, I will request the judge to set the death penalty.†   (source)
  • Waive it?†   (source)
  • Do you wish to waive these rights?†   (source)
  • He had had plenty of trouble over the Dakers' cat which was of no value at all: but the great-horses were costly creatures; besides, Angus would not be one to waive any possible penalty…… So there was a degree of frustration about that made home a good place to get away from as much as possible.†   (source)
  • I will even waive admission.†   (source)
  • Don't waive any of your rights, okay?†   (source)
  • But I waive any objection and agree to be bound by the decision of this jury, even with the sorry likes of George Davis sitting on it.†   (source)
  • How can you be against a corporation that wants a worker to waive his patent rights.†   (source)
  • In letters to the Governor and the Republican State Chairman, he urged a special election, agreeing to abide by the result and to waive whatever constitutional rights protected him from recall.†   (source)
  • We need to get him arraigned as soon as possible, unless you can get him to waive the rule.   (source)
    waive = not enforce
  • Or, it's possible that if I'd talked to representatives from the schools they might have waived the fee.   (source)
    waived = not enforced (not collected)
  • On the upside, Dad said, the house had cost only a thousand dollars, and the owner had waived the down payment.   (source)
    waived = not required
  • Do you waive the formal reading?   (source)
    waive = not enforce the right of
  • What I didn't tell you is that we're going to waive it.'†   (source)
  • Your Honor, we waive the reading of the charges.†   (source)
  • I'm going to waive the readings of the complaints-we'll go over them individually some other time.†   (source)
  • He gave me permission to waive the hearing.†   (source)
  • I see, Mr. Houghton, that you wish to waive your probable cause hearing.†   (source)
  • I waive the right to collect interest on my loan but not that right.†   (source)
  • I therefore waive the right to call witnesses.†   (source)
  • After letting this sink in he remarked in a slightly ironic tone that obviously this was a "delicate topic" and he could enter into the young lady's feelings, but--and here his voice grew sterner--his duty obliged him to waive considerations of delicacy.†   (source)
  • So he resolved to waive rank and make friends with the calf.†   (source)
  • We may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere.†   (source)
  • "Waive that, a moment," said Mr. Jaggers, "and ask another."†   (source)
  • Waive nothing.†   (source)
  • "This is quite a coincidence," thought he, and when the subject of price was mentioned, he made a gesture with his hand, as if to waive away a question of so little importance.†   (source)
  • "Well, let's waive it—we won't get anywhere, and besides I haven't quite made up my mind about it myself.†   (source)
  • She had set herself to stand or fall by her qualities, and to waive such merely technical claims upon a strange family as had been established for her by the flimsy fact of a member of that family, in a season of impulse, writing his name in a church-book beside hers.†   (source)
  • But what sort of dubious experience, we now ask—much in the spirit of a Lodovico Settembrini—can so paralyze and suspend a man's ability to form opinions, even rob him of the right to form them, or better, induce him to waive that right in a kind of insane rapture?†   (source)
  • For all such persons the smallest pecuniary profit is a matter of importance, and none of them feel disposed to waive any of their claims, or to lose any portion of their income.†   (source)
  • I will waive that point however.†   (source)
  • 'Your friend, sir,' said he, 'is—ha—is a little impatient; and, in his impatience, is not perhaps fully sensible of what he owes to—hum—to—but we will waive that, we will waive that.†   (source)
  • I am convinced that fine art is the subtlest, the most seductive, the most effective instrument of moral propaganda in the world, excepting only the example of personal conduct; and I waive even this exception in favor of the art of the stage, because it works by exhibiting examples of personal conduct made intelligible and moving to crowds of unobservant, unreflecting people to whom real life means nothing.†   (source)
  • If so, we will waive our privilege.†   (source)
  • [Footnote r: The authority which represents the State ought not, I think, to waive the right of inspecting the local administration, even when it does not interfere more actively.†   (source)
  • But I waive the biographies of all other scriveners for a few passages in the life of Bartleby, who was a scrivener of the strangest I ever saw or heard of.†   (source)
  • But while they freely waive a ceremonial like this, they do by no means renounce their claim to more solid tribute.†   (source)
  • We have purchased permission to waive the usual delay; and at half-past two o'clock the mayor of Marseilles will be waiting for us at the city hall.†   (source)
  • As a result, they decided that it was time to waive etiquette and send their greatest and best against me.†   (source)
  • If the rulers of these nations propose to abolish the independence of the press, the people would be justified in saying: Give us the right of prosecuting your offences before the ordinary tribunals, and perhaps we may then waive our right of appeal to the tribunal of public opinion.†   (source)
  • Of course, it would have been best, all round, for Merlin to waive etiquette and quit and call it half a day, since he would never be able to start that water, for he was a true magician of the time; which is to say, the big miracles, the ones that gave him his reputation, always had the luck to be performed when nobody but Merlin was present; he couldn't start this well with all this crowd around to see; a crowd was as bad for a magician's miracle in that day as it was for a…†   (source)
  • She believed she must waive the subject altogether.†   (source)
  • Let them connect any crime with my name; I waive all defense and take all the blame.†   (source)
  • In matters of contribution, it is the practice to waive the articles of the constitution.†   (source)
  • "Then with that assurance and your highness's good leave," said Don Quixote, "I hereby for this once waive my privilege of gentle blood, and come down and put myself on a level with the lowly birth of the wrong-doer, making myself equal with him and enabling him to enter into combat with me; and so, I challenge and defy him, though absent, on the plea of his malfeasance in breaking faith with this poor damsel, who was a maiden and now by his misdeed is none; and say that he shall…†   (source)
  • To avoid, therefore, all imputation of laying down a rule for posterity, founded only on the authority of _ipse dixit_—for which, to say the truth, we have not the profoundest veneration—we shall here waive the privilege above contended for, and proceed to lay before the reader the reasons which have induced us to intersperse these several digressive essays in the course of this work.†   (source)
  • Placebo said; "O January, brother, Full little need have ye, my lord so dear, Counsel to ask of any that is here: But that ye be so full of sapience, That you not liketh, for your high prudence, To waive* from the word of Solomon.†   (source)
  • …for Turnus' life, And loath'd the hard conditions of the strife, Held him by force; and, dying in his death, In these sad accents gave her sorrow breath: "O Turnus, I adjure thee by these tears, And whate'er price Amata's honor bears Within thy breast, since thou art all my hope, My sickly mind's repose, my sinking age's prop; Since on the safety of thy life alone Depends Latinus, and the Latian throne: Refuse me not this one, this only pray'r, To waive the combat, and pursue the war.†   (source)
  • And therefore, leve* husband, I conclude, *dear Albeit that mine ancestors were rude, Yet may the highe God, — and so hope I, — Grant me His grace to live virtuously: Then am I gentle when that I begin To live virtuously, and waive* sin.†   (source)
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  • She waived the decision of which to choose by buying both.
    waived = did not engage in
  • "Gulden, suppose we waive the question till we're on the grounds?" he suggested.   (source)
    waive = do not engage in
  • "It may be so," said the young clergyman, indifferently, as waiving a discussion that he considered irrelevant or unseasonable.   (source)
    waiving = not engaging in
  • "Yes," said Will, in a tone that seemed to waive the subject as uninteresting.   (source)
    waive = ignore (not engage in)
  • --the Legislature would not wholly waive the subject of the following winter.   (source)
    waive = refrain from engaging in
  • The scout nodded his head in assent, though he seemed anxious to waive the further discussion of a subject that appeared painful.   (source)
  • "Thank you," said Caleb, making a slight gesture with his right hand to waive the invitation.   (source)
    waive = decline (not engage in)
  • He could not choose between roast beef and chicken, and so he waived the question by taking both; and what with the biscuits and butter, apple-sauce and blackberry jam, cherry pie and milk like cream, there was danger of making himself ill.   (source)
    waived = did not engage in
  • With this feeling uppermost, he continued to waive the question of the chaplaincy, and to persuade himself that it was not only no proper business of his, but likely enough never to vex him with a demand for his vote.   (source)
    waive = not engage in
  • Young Ladislaw did not pay that visit to which Mr. Brooke had invited him, and only six days afterwards Mr. Casaubon mentioned that his young relative had started for the Continent, seeming by this cold vagueness to waive inquiry.   (source)
    waive = refrain from engaging in
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  • But going out of the porte cochere he met Mr. Casaubon, and that gentleman, expressing the best wishes for his cousin, politely waived the pleasure of any further leave-taking on the morrow, which would be sufficiently crowded with the preparations for departure.   (source)
    waived = did not engage in
  • There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a discussion coolly waived when you feel that justice is all on your own side is even more exasperating in marriage than in philosophy.   (source)
    waived = not engaged in
  • She folded herself in the large chair, and leaned her head against it in fatigued quiescence, while Tantripp went away wondering at this strange contrariness in her young mistress—that just the morning when she had more of a widow's face than ever, she should have asked for her lighter mourning which she had waived before.   (source)
  • Nothing escaped Lydgate in Rosamond's graceful behavior: how delicately she waived the notice which the old man's want of taste had thrust upon her by a quiet gravity, not showing her dimples on the wrong occasion, but showing them afterwards in speaking to Mary, to whom she addressed herself with so much good-natured interest, that Lydgate, after quickly examining Mary more fully than he had done before, saw an adorable kindness in Rosamond's eyes.   (source)
    waived = ignored (not engaged in)
  • But I waive that discourse till I come to an experiment.   (source)
    waive = refrain from engaging in
  • I waived the discourse and began to talk of my business; but I found he could not have done with it, so I let him alone, and he went on to tell me all the circumstances of his case, too long to relate here; particularly, that having been out of England some time before he came to the post he was in, she had had two children in the meantime by an officer of the army; and that when he came to England and, upon her submission, took her again, and maintained her very well, yet she ran away…   (source)
    waived = did not engage in
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  • After six games, we'll have three weeks to place him on the active roster, injured reserve or waive him.
    waive = release from a sports team's roster while maintaining the payment contract (which another team can replace)
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  • The judge warned Joe repeatedly that a guilty plea meant waiving his right to a trial, his right to testify, and his right to appeal her ruling.†   (source)
  • Mass General was waiving the cost of her care.†   (source)
  • The attorneys contended that their clients had been unjustly convicted because legal counsel had not been appointed them until after they had confessed and had waived preliminary hearings; and because they were not competently represented at their trial, were convicted with the help of evidence seized without a search warrant (the shotgun and knife taken from the Hickock home), were not granted a change of venue even though the environs of the trial had been "saturated" with publicity…†   (source)
  • Are you knowingly, voluntarily, and intelligently waiving your rights?†   (source)
  • The General Law Amendment Act, better known as the Ninety-Day Detention Law, waived the right of habeas corpus and empowered any police officer to detain any person without a warrant on grounds of suspicion of a political crime.†   (source)
  • The Concorde program was too expensive for Pinzon, so he was given a "scholarship": his fees were waived, and expenses for gear and travel were covered by the team.†   (source)
  • But together they told their story to an agent at the ticket counter, and charmed her into rebooking the flight for the following Sunday and waiving the charge.†   (source)
  • In 1917, even though they were not U.S. citizens and thus exempt from military service, a majority of young Pima men waived this right and enlisted to fight in France.†   (source)
  • We knew something like this could happen, but there was no photo in the mug books and he waived the prelim.†   (source)
  • It's okay," he said, waiving it off.†   (source)
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  • Angel and Norberto converged on it, but at the last second Norberto waived off his pitcher.†   (source)
  • Subject has waived the presence of an attorney.†   (source)
  • Not only did the man agree to take Caroline on as a private pupil, he waived the fee.†   (source)
  • We've waived that troublesome tax haven't we?†   (source)
  • However, the southern States have waived a strict adherence to this principle.†   (source)
  • He gave Davis one more good stare, fired similar broadsides at both Goode and Miller, and then said, "Now the parties have waived their open-ing statements.†   (source)
  • Great New York Times demanded that entire Lunar "rebel" government be fetched Earthside and publicly executed— "This is clearly a case in which the humane rule against capital punishment must be waived in the greater interests of all mankind."†   (source)
  • Marriage licenses and health certificates are waived.†   (source)
  • "Not another word," he said, waiving the rebuff off.†   (source)
  • Yes, the subject has waived the presence of an attorney.†   (source)
  • Leonardo, you understand these rights and options, and at this time have waived counsel and are prepared to make a statement?†   (source)
  • Fleming replied, "I worked on the case to the very best of my ability, giving it more time than I do most cases"); by waiving a preliminary hearing (Smith answered, "But sir, neither Mr. Fleming nor I had been appointed counsel at the time of the waiver"); by making remarks to newsmen damaging to the defendants (Shultz to Smith: "Are you aware that a reporter, Ron Kull of the Topeka Daily Capital, quoted you, on the second day of the trial, as saying there was no doubt of Mr. Hickock's…†   (source)
  • Do you understand that I would have had the obligation today to find whether or not there was probable cause to believe that you committed the acts for which you are charged, and that by waiving the probable cause hearing, you are not requiring me to find that probable cause; you will now be bound over to the grand jury, and I will bind this case over to the superior court?†   (source)
  • "First up, Alice," he said to me, "you'll be happy to know that the defendant has waived his right to appear."†   (source)
  • He waived the subject off with a smile.†   (source)
  • The defense waived cross-examination, a policy they pursued with the next three witnesses (Nancy Ewalt's father, Clarence, and Sheriff Earl Robinson, and the county coroner, Dr. Robert Fenton), each of whom added to the narrative of events that sunny November morning: the discovery, finally, of all four victims, and accounts of how they looked, and, from Dr. Fenton, a clinical diagnosis of why-"Severe traumas to brain and vital cranial structures inflicted by a shotgun.†   (source)
  • Ryan believed that in Madison waiving his right to appear, Meggesto had forfeited the question of identification.†   (source)
  • It turned out that Ryan's purpose had been to have Madison in the court, that by Madison's having waived his right to appear, all Ryan now had to prove was that a rape had taken place on May eighth and that I had identified a man I believed to be my assailant.†   (source)
  • Roark waived his privilege to make an opening statement to the jury.†   (source)
  • Avail yourself of the ambiguity in the word "Love": let them think they have solved by Love problems they have in fact only waived or postponed under the influence of the enchantment.†   (source)
  • "I know, I know," she waived my protest.†   (source)
  • On several occasions, Frau Stohr waived all claims, stating she would forgive Frau Iltis the debt.†   (source)
  • I waived that question, and returned to the Murdstones.†   (source)
  • So far, and waiving their use to himself, a clockmaker could have made a better pair.†   (source)
  • Waiving, therefore, his privilege of self-defence, he regarded only his discomposure.†   (source)
  • Or, waiving that, as he saw it after carefully listening to Smillie's recounting of all the suspicious and incriminating circumstances, he would think it very difficult to construct an even partially satisfactory defense, unless there were some facts favoring Clyde which had not thus far appeared.†   (source)
  • A spirit of unruliness diffused itself among us and, under its influence, differences of culture and constitution were waived.†   (source)
  • It was a meal which was distinguished by this curious feature, that rank was waived on both sides; yet neither recipient of the favour was aware that it had been extended.†   (source)
  • But he waives his majesty with infinite grace; walks with a feather-like step; and makes every wrinkle in his war worn visage brim over with holiday joyousness.†   (source)
  • His two sisters and his brother, Raoul, would not hear of a division and waived their claim to their shares, leaving themselves entirely in Philippe's hands, as though the right of primogeniture had never ceased to exist.†   (source)
  • …aside petty differences of conclusions which, although they might occasionally cause the deaths of several millions of young men, might be explained away—supposing that after all Bernard Shaw and Bernhardi, Bonar Law and Bethmann-Hollweg were mutual heirs of progress if only in agreeing against the ducking of witches—waiving the antitheses and approaching individually these men who seemed to be the leaders, he was repelled by the discrepancies and contradictions in the men themselves.†   (source)
  • Well, waiving that, as she is nothing to me, and virtuously married to another man, why should she come troubling us?†   (source)
  • One sunset, when halt was made for camp in an arroyo, Pilchuck waived his usual work and rode off up a slope.†   (source)
  • And he held his last expressive gesture, which both yielded to her and waived all responsibility for any substantial misinterpretation she might make despite his broad hints.†   (source)
  • Mendoza delicately waives his presidential dignity, of which the right to sit on the squared stone block is the appanage, by sitting on the ground like his guests, and using the stone only as a support for his back.†   (source)
  • Ladies and gentlemen—I am ordered by Miss Woodhouse to say, that she waives her right of knowing exactly what you may all be thinking of, and only requires something very entertaining from each of you, in a general way.†   (source)
  • I again warmly repeated that it was a bad side of human nature (in which sentiment, waiving its application, I have since seen reason to think I was right), and I walked down the little path away from Biddy, and Biddy went into the house, and I went out at the garden gate and took a dejected stroll until supper-time; again feeling it very sorrowful and strange that this, the second night of my bright fortunes, should be as lonely and unsatisfactory as the first.†   (source)
  • I doubt whether there was ever a provincial man of quality so punctilious in breeding as he is: he endeavors to attend to the slightest rules of etiquette, and does not allow one of them to be waived towards himself: he is full of scruples and at the same time of pretensions; he wishes to do enough, but fears to do too much; and as he does not very well know the limits of the one or of the other, he keeps up a haughty and embarrassed air of reserve.†   (source)
  • So skilfully and so closely has he drawn the bonds of the law about the tenant, that the black man has often simply to choose between pauperism and crime; he "waives" all homestead exemptions in his contract; he cannot touch his own mortgaged crop, which the laws put almost in the full control of the land-owner and of the merchant.†   (source)
  • The question of which was right being tacitly waived by the company, Jan went on meditatively:— "And he's the fearfullest man, bain't ye, Joseph?†   (source)
  • …in your own right (being the third part of the fortune of your mother, the late Mrs. Osborne and which reverted to you at her decease, and to Miss Jane Osborne and Miss Maria Frances Osborne); yet I am instructed by Mr. Osborne to say, that he waives all claim upon your estate, and that the sum of 2,000 pounds, 4 per cent. annuities, at the value of the day (being your one-third share of the sum of 6,000 pounds), shall be paid over to yourself or your agents upon your receipt for the…†   (source)
  • Be it known that, waiving all argument, I take the good old fashioned ground that the whale is a fish, and call upon holy Jonah to back me.†   (source)
  • In anticipation of the demand—which I would have made hadst thou waived it—I have here a statement covering everything necessary to the understanding required.†   (source)
  • Waiving that point, however, and supposing her to be, as you describe her, only pretty and good-natured, let me tell you, that in the degree she possesses them, they are not trivial recommendations to the world in general, for she is, in fact, a beautiful girl, and must be thought so by ninety-nine people out of an hundred; and till it appears that men are much more philosophic on the subject of beauty than they are generally supposed; till they do fall in love with well-informed minds…†   (source)
  • On her arrival below the landlady, who was as kind as she was fat and lazy, saw that Elizabeth-Jane was rather tired, though in her earnestness to be useful she was waiving her own needs altogether.†   (source)
  • A rigorous adherence, however, to this principle, is waived by those who would be gainers by it.†   (source)
  • Then, in examining his counsel, he must truly tell his tale; he must consider whether the thing he proposes to do be reasonable, within his power, and acceptable to the more part and the better part of his counsellors; he must look at the things that may follow from that counselling, choosing the best and waiving all besides; he must consider the root whence the matter of his counsel is engendered, what fruits it may bear, and from what causes they be sprung.†   (source)
  • But waiving illustrations of this sort, is it not manifest that most of the capital objections urged against the new system lie with tenfold weight against the existing Confederation?†   (source)
  • The exercise of it by the people at large will be readily admitted to be impracticable; as waiving every other consideration, it would leave them little time to do anything else.†   (source)
  • As this objection, therefore, has been in a manner waived by those who have criticised the powers of the convention, I dismiss it without further observation.†   (source)
  • Waiving any exception that might be taken to the inaccuracy or inexplicitness of the distinction between internal and external, let us inquire what ground there is to presuppose that disinclination in the people.†   (source)
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