Definition of "waiver" []

• Intentional relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege. (noun)
• The document that evidences such relinquishment. (noun)
• A dispensation, as from a rule or penalty. (noun)
• Permission for a professional athletic club to assign a player to the minor leagues or release a player from the club, granted only after all other clubs have been given the opportunity to claim the player and have not done so. (noun)
• A deferment. (noun)

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• "Even if we assume that a waiver is available to indigent defendants, that strikes me as highly unfair and so it must be unconstitutional somehow."
• "If the waiver is agreed-to by the next sitting president (in excercise of his inherent authority to conduct US foreign policy) it wont matter who controls congress."
• "And he also receives Medicaid through what we call a waiver program."