Waiver vs. Waver — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Waiver and Waver
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Definitions
Waiver
A waiver is the voluntary relinquishment or surrender of some known right or privilege. Regulatory agencies of state departments or the federal government may issue waivers to exempt companies from certain regulations.
Waver
To move unsteadily back and forth
The flowers wavered in the breeze.
Waiver
Intentional relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege.
Waver
To move in a certain direction with a swaying or unsteady motion
The child wavered along the hall. Snowflakes wavered down.
Waiver
The document that evidences such relinquishment.
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Waver
To exhibit irresolution or indecision; vacillate
They wavered over buying a house.
Waiver
A dispensation, as from a rule or penalty.
Waver
To become unsteady or unsure; falter
His resolve began to waver.
Waiver
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.
Waver
To become diverted
She never wavered from her position opposing the war.
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Waiver
A deferment.
Waver
To change or fluctuate
The weather wavered between sunny and overcast.
Waiver
To provide with a waiver or issue a waiver for.
Waver
To tremble or quaver in sound, as of the voice or a musical note.
Waiver
The act of waiving, or not insisting on, some right, claim, or privilege.
Waver
To flicker or glimmer
The door opened, and the light from the candle wavered.
Waiver
(legal) A legal document removing some requirement, such as waiving a right (giving it up) or a waiver of liability (agreeing to hold someone blameless).
I had to sign a waiver when I went skydiving, agreeing not to sue even if something went wrong.
Waver
The action of wavering
The waver of the flashlight in the distance.
Waiver
Something that releases a person from a requirement.
I needed a waiver from the department head to take the course because I didn't technically have the prerequisite courses.
I needed a waiver from the zoning board for the house because the lot was so small, but they let me build because it was next to the park.
Waver
(intransitive) To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
Flowers wavered in the breeze.
Waiver
(obsolete) The process of waiving or outlawing a person.
Waver
(intransitive) To flicker, glimmer, quiver, as a weak light.
Waiver
(transitive) To waive (to relinquish, to forego).
Waver
(intransitive) To fluctuate or vary, as commodity prices or a poorly sustained musical pitch.
Waiver
The act of waiving, or not insisting on, some right, claim, or privilege.
Waver
(intransitive) To shake or tremble, as the hands or voice.
His voice wavered when the reporter brought up the controversial topic.
Waiver
A formal written statement of relinquishment
Waver
(intransitive) To falter; become unsteady; begin to fail or give way.
Waver
(intransitive) To be indecisive between choices; to feel or show doubt or indecision; to vacillate.
Despite all the terrible things that happened to her, she never wavered from her beliefs.
Waver
An act of wavering, vacillating, etc.
Waver
Someone who waves, enjoys waving, etc.
I felt encouraged by all the enthusiastic wavers in the crowd.
The Fourth of July brings out all the flag wavers.
Johnny is such a little waver; everyone who passes by receives his preferred greeting.
Waver
Someone who specializes in waving (hair treatment).
Waver
A tool that accomplishes hair waving.
Waver
A sapling left standing in a fallen wood.
Waver
To play or move to and fro; to move one way and the other; hence, to totter; to reel; to swing; to flutter.
With banners and pennons wavering with the wind.
Thou wouldst waver on one of these trees as a terror to all evil speakers against dignities.
Waver
To be unsettled in opinion; to vacillate; to be undetermined; to fluctuate; as, to water in judgment.
Let us hold fast . . . without wavering.
In feeble hearts, propense enough beforeTo waver, or fall off and join with idols.
Waver
A sapling left standing in a fallen wood.
Waver
Someone who communicates by waving
Waver
The act of pausing uncertainly;
There was a hesitation in his speech
Waver
The act of moving back and forth
Waver
Pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness;
Authorities hesitate to quote exact figures
Waver
Be unsure or weak;
Their enthusiasm is faltering
Waver
Move hesitatingly, as if about to give way
Waver
Move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern;
The line on the monitor vacillated
Waver
Move back and forth very rapidly;
The candle flickered
Waver
Sway to and fro
Waver
Give off unsteady sounds, alternating in amplitude or frequency
