Waiver vs Forfeit - What's the difference?
waiver | forfeit |
The act of waiving, or not insisting on, some right, claim, or privilege.
(legal) A legal document releasing some requirement, such as waiving a right (giving it up) or a waiver of liability (agreeing to hold someone blameless). Also used for such a form even before it is filled out and signed.
Something that releases a person from a requirement.
See waive.
noun, waivers, the noun, especially in newspaper headlines for sports stories.
A penalty for or consequence of a misdemeanor.
A thing forfeited; that which is taken from somebody in requital of a misdeed committed; that which is lost, or the right to which is alienated, by a crime, breach of contract, etc.
* Shakespeare
Something deposited and redeemable by a sportive fine as part of a game.
* Goldsmith
(obsolete, rare) Injury; wrong; mischief.
* Ld. Berners
To suffer the loss of something by wrongdoing or non-compliance
To lose a contest, game, match, or other form of competition by voluntary withdrawal, by failing to attend or participate, or by violation of the rules
To be guilty of a misdeed; to be criminal; to transgress.
To fail to keep an obligation.
* Shakespeare
Lost or alienated for an offense or crime; liable to penal seizure.
* Shakespeare
* Emerson
As nouns the difference between waiver and forfeit
is that waiver is the act of waiving, or not insisting on, some right, claim, or privilege while forfeit is a penalty for or consequence of a misdemeanor.As verbs the difference between waiver and forfeit
is that waiver is while forfeit is to suffer the loss of something by wrongdoing or non-compliance.As an adjective forfeit is
lost or alienated for an offense or crime; liable to penal seizure.waiver
English
Noun
(en noun)- I had to sign a waiver when I went skydiving, agreeing not to sue even if something went wrong.
- 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.
Derived terms
* waiveredSee also
* ("waiver" on Wikipedia)Verb
(head)Usage notes
* Sometimes used in puns involving wavering]] about [[waiverAnagrams
*forfeit
English
Noun
(en noun)- That he our deadly forfeit should release'' (John Milton, ''On the Morning of Christ's Nativity , 1629)
- He who murders pays the forfeit of his own life.
- Thy slanders I forgive; and therewithal / Remit thy other forfeits .
- Country dances and forfeits shortened the rest of the day.
- to seek arms upon people and country that never did us any forfeit
Verb
(en verb)- He forfeited his last chance of an early release from jail by repeatedly attacking another inmate.
- Because only nine players were present, the football team was forced to forfeit the game.
- I will have the heart of him if he forfeit .
Usage notes
* Very rarely, forfeit is used as the past tense form and past participle (i.e., the past tense forms and the present tense form are homographs).Synonyms
* (lose a contest) capitulate, surrender * (voluntarily give up) forgo, withgoDerived terms
* forfeits * nonforfeited * nonforfeiting * nonforfeitureAdjective
(-)- thy wealth being forfeit to the state
- to tread the forfeit paradise