Intentional relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege.
The document that evidences such relinquishment.
A dispensation, as from a rule or penalty.
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.
A deferment.
[Anglo-Norman weyver, from weyver, to abandon; see waive.]
(wā'vər) 