disclaimer

Meaning

Noun

1. One who disclaims, disowns, or renounces.
2. A public disavowal, as of responsibility, pretensions, claims, opinions, etc.
3. A denial, disavowal, or renunciation, as of a title, claim, interest, estate, or trust; relinquishment or waiver of an interest or estate.
4. (proscribed) A disclosure of an interest, relationship, or the like.

Verb

To disclaim or disavow, as by appending a legal disclaimer.

Synonyms

denial

disavowal

renunciation

negation

negative

rejection

cancelling

contradiction

disallowance

give up

rebuff

recantation

references

refusal

refuser

renounce

retraction

surrender

waive

waiver

waiver clause

quitclaim deed

exemption from responsibility

exemption clause

notice of abandonment

abandon

disclaimer of opinion

abandonment

abjuration

abstinence

apostasy

breaking away

Translations

Verzichtserklärung

descargo de responsabilidad

Haftungsausschluss

αποποίηση

dichiarazione di non responsabilità

clause de non-responsabilité

αποκήρυξη

abjuration

sconfessione

Ablehnungshinweis

αρνητής

Nichtanerkennung

démenti

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dɪsˈkleɪm.ɚ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: discleymer

In summary

Partly from Middle English discleymer, from Anglo-Norman desclamer; and partly from disclaim + -er.