Talk:waivered

Emerging use?

• Sportswriters pun between waver (“vacillate”) and waiver (“relinquishment or abandonment or rights”).
• In bureaucratic parlance, there seems to be some usage of waiver as a verb, meaning to sign a waiver document, thereby placing oneself or one's organization in some condition of eligibility for something.

Neither usage would be considered standard and neither is common. DCDuring TALK 20:10, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Tea room discussion

Note: the below discussion was moved from the Wiktionary:Tea room.

waivered says it is the past of waiver, but waiver does not have a verb sense. --Panda10 18:52, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

This looks like an error for wavered, although there is an adjectival sense for this word as well. --EncycloPetey 18:56, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for correcting it. --Panda10 18:59, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

If it's an error then it seems to be a common one. Should it be kept and marked as such.--Dmol 19:02, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

It really wouldn't surprise me if waiver was used as a verb. We might mark it as non-standard, but .... DCDuring TALK 19:17, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

It's not in Webster's. It's possible, but it would be a recent development so we'd want citations. --EncycloPetey 19:32, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

There might be usage of "waivered" and "waivering" relating to signing of waiver documents, but it seems rare in writing. Less rare is punning between "waver" and "waiver" in sports article headlines. I don't think either warrants a real sense entry. I'll put a note in the talk page. DCDuring TALK 20:01, 11 May 2008 (UTC)