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Waive vs Abandonment - What's the difference?

waive | abandonment |

In legal|lang=en terms the difference between waive and abandonment

is that waive is (legal) to relinquish (a right etc); to give up claim to; to forego while abandonment is (legal) the relinquishment by the insured to the underwriters of what may remain of the property insured after a loss or damage by a peril insured against .

As nouns the difference between waive and abandonment

is that waive is (obsolete|legal) a woman put out of the protection of the law; an outlawed woman or waive can be while abandonment is the act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment
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As a verb waive

is (obsolete) to outlaw (someone) or waive can be (obsolete) to move from side to side; to sway.

waive

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) weyven, from (etyl) .

Verb

(waiv)
  • (obsolete) To outlaw (someone).
  • (obsolete) To abandon, give up (someone or something).
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  • (legal) To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forego.
  • If you waive the right to be silent, anything you say can be used against you in a court of law.
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  • To put aside, avoid.
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  • Derived terms
    * waivable

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) weyven, from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (waiv)
  • (obsolete) To move from side to side; to sway.
  • (obsolete) To stray, wander.
  • * c. 1390 , (Geoffrey Chaucer), "The Merchant's Tale", Canterbury Tales :
  • ye been so ful of sapience / That yow ne liketh, for youre heighe prudence, / To weyven fro the word of Salomon.

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) waive, probably as the past participle of (weyver), as Etymology 1, above.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete, legal) A woman put out of the protection of the law; an outlawed woman.
  • (obsolete) A waif; a castaway.
  • (John Donne)

    Etymology 4

    Variant forms.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1624 , (John Donne), Devotions upon Emergent Occasions :
  • I know, O Lord, the ordinary discomfort that accompanies that phrase, that the house is visited, and that thy works, and thy tokens are upon the patient; but what a wretched, and disconsolate hermitage is that house, which is not visited by thee, and what a waive and stray is that man, that hath not thy marks upon him?

    abandonment

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment.
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  • The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband or child; desertion.
  • Since he left her, she's suing him for divorce on grounds of abandonment .
  • An abandoned building or structure.
  • High-profile abandonments are harder to infiltrate for urban explorers due to their heightened security.
  • (legal) The relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege; relinquishment of right to secure a patent by an inventor; relinquishment of copyright by an author.
  • (legal) The relinquishment by the insured to the underwriters of what may remain of the property insured after a loss or damage by a peril insured against.
  • The cessation of service on a particular segment of the lines of a common carrier, as granted by a government agency.
  • A refusal to receive freight so damaged in transit as to be worthless and render carrier liable for its value.
  • The self-surrender to an outside influence.
  • Abandon; careless freedom or ease; surrender to one's emotions.
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  • Synonyms

    * (careless freedom) nonchalance

    References