waive
waive 英 [weɪv] 美 [wev]
vt. 放弃；搁置
进行时:waiving 过去式:waived 过去分词:waived 第三人称单数:waives
- To waive is to give up one's right to do something. If you waive your right to help name your family's new puppy, you can't complain if he ends up being called "Mr. Tinkerbell Sweetheart Lovey-Face."
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- vt. 放弃；搁置
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1. He has waived all claim to the money.
他放弃了索取这笔钱的权利。
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2. The defendant can waive her right to remain silent.
被告可以放弃她保持沉默的权利。
- waive (v.) c. 1300, "deprive of legal protection," from Anglo-French weyver "to abandon, waive" (Old French guever "to abandon, give back"), probably from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse veifa "to swing about," from Proto-Germanic *waif-, from PIE root *weip- "to turn, vacillate, tremble ecstatically." In Middle English legal language, used of rights, goods, or women.
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