TO WAIVE
In the business and sports worlds, “waive” is used quite often. Here are some meanings:
- To give up a claim to something
- To hold back from insisting on/enforcing a rule, penalty, requirement
- To cancel or postpone (sometimes temporarily)
A few synonyms: sacrifice, surrender, give up, abdicate, yield, forgo, renounce, abandon
TO WAVE
- To move freely back and forth or up and down in the air (flags, branches in the wind)
- To make a signal with a movement of the hand/object held in the hand (she waved from her limo)
- To curl hair … make wavy