waive

verb

1. (transitive)To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forgo.

   “If you waive the right to be silent, anything you say can be used against you in a court of law.”

   “Exhibiting what the dramatic critics call a "fine restraint," he waives his timely opportunity for discourse upon the celebrated gyascutus, which, as any Northwestern tourist will tell you, haunts the slopes of the most precipitous mountains—always evading capture because its legs, shorter on the one side of the body than on the other, are peculiarly adapted to scooting up an inclined plane.”

   “The federal government will ban the import of live northern snakeheads beginning Friday, waiving the normal 30-day waiting period”

   “While there’s no reliable data on micro-housing, some notable policies and projects are popping up on that front too. Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg waived the city’s zoning standards to allow micro-apartments.”

2. (transitive)To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forgo.
3. (Canada, US, transitive)To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forgo.

   “Nearly 1,200 players will be cut, waived, or sent packing, and the scramble to land on a practice squad or catch on elsewhere will move fast.”

   “Jaden Ivey has played his last game in Chicago, with the Bulls waiving Ivey following his controversial comments on social media about the LGBTQ community.”

4. (archaic)To put aside, avoid.

   “[…] seeing in many such occasions of common life we advisedly do renounce or waive our own opinions, absolutely yielding to the direction of others”

5. (obsolete)To outlaw (someone).
6. (obsolete)To abandon, give up (someone or something).

   “but she might be waived, and held as abandoned.”

7. (obsolete)To move from side to side; to sway.
8. (intransitive, obsolete)To stray, wander.

noun

1. (obsolete)A woman put out of the protection of the law; an outlawed woman.
2. (obsolete)A waif; a castaway.

   “But vvhat a vvretched, and diſconſolate Hermitage is that Houſe, vvhich is not viſited by thee [God], and vvhat a VVayue, and Stray is that Man, that hath not thy Markes vpon him?”