Talk:waiver

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Emerging use?

  • Sportswriters pun between waver (vacillate) and waiver (relinquishment or abandonment or rights).
  • In bureaucratic parlance, there seems to be some usage of waiver as a verb, meaning to sign a waiver document, thereby placing oneself or one's organization in some condition of eligibility for something.
Neither usage would be considered standard and neither is common. DCDuring TALK 20:10, 11 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

RFC discussion: August 2015–October 2019

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See waive. Waive has six verb senses under two etymologies, which apply? Renard Migrant (talk) 16:26, 17 August 2015 (UTC)Reply

This has been resolved for a while. — Mnemosientje (t · c) 15:51, 25 October 2019 (UTC)Reply