waive
/weɪv/ verb [T]Definition
ALLOW UNUSUAL ACTION › to allow someone not to obey the usual rule or not to pay the usual amount of money: He agreed to waive his fee to help us.
LAW › to decide not to have something that you are allowed by law to have: She waived her right to have a lawyer representing her.
(Definition of waive verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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