Waiver is a noun meaning “an action, official document, or status releasing a person or organization from a requirement, or giving up a right, privilege, or claim.” Note there are two meanings here—(1) “freeing an individual or organization from a requirement,” and (2) “giving up a right, privilege, or etc.”:
Students can apply for a tuition-waiver if they cannot afford tuition.
You must sign this waiver, giving up your right to sue the company, in order to go on the trip.
In the first sentence, the waiver releases a person from a requirement. In the second sentence, the waiver gives up a right. The word can describe the action, the document, or the status. Waiver means, most simply, “release from a legal right or requirement.”
Waver, a verb, means to vacillate, fluctuate, or hesitate. These words, here, mean “to go back and forth between different positions”:
At the restaurant, I wavered between ordering the fish or the chicken.
The candle flame wavered in the wind.
Waver can also mean hesitate in the sense of “waver between yes and no”:
Rosa wavered for a moment before signing the contract.
As you might guess, waver is related to the noun wave, since it describes the basic action of waves—oscillation.
More Examples of “Waiver” in a Sentence
- In 1988 a presidential waiver was issued to allow contact with the organization.
- A waiver was made for teachers who were “close” under the previous system.
- He was granted a waiver from the NCAA to play immediately after transferring.
- Recipients receive a tuition waiver to attend state colleges and universities in Massachusetts.
- In summer of the same year, he joined as a waiver recently relegated 1.
More Examples of “Waver” in a Sentence
- Despite a wave of heavy reaction, Stern did not waver in his decision.
- None of this has made us waver in our mission to help people.
- An early command of personal voice gives huge insight into the level of a person’s self-confidence and the best won’t waver from their core values.
- When it comes to casual clothing my enthusiasm for clothes starts to waver.
- As the colonel’s forces advanced and the international community appeared to dither, many Libyans who had thrown in their lot with the rebels began to waver.