Usually means: Voluntarily relinquishes a right, claim.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. waives: Merriam-Webster
  2. waives: Collins English Dictionary
  3. waives: Vocabulary.com
  4. Waives, waives: Wordnik
  5. waives: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. waives: Wiktionary
  7. waives: Dictionary.com
  8. waives: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. waives: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. waives: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. waives: Legal dictionary

(Note: See waive as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (waive)

verb:  (transitive, law) To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forgo.
verb:  (particularly) To relinquish claim on a payment or fee which would otherwise be due.
verb:  (now rare) To put aside, avoid.
verb:  (obsolete) To outlaw (someone).
verb:  (obsolete) To abandon, give up (someone or something).
verb:  (obsolete) To move from side to side; to sway.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To stray, wander.
noun:  (obsolete, law) A woman put out of the protection of the law; an outlawed woman.
noun:  (obsolete) A waif; a castaway.
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