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DISCLAIMER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does disclaimer mean?
• DISCLAIMER (noun)
The noun DISCLAIMER has 2 senses:
1. (law) a voluntary repudiation of a person's legal claim to something
2. denial of any connection with or knowledge of
Familiarity information: DISCLAIMER used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(law) a voluntary repudiation of a person's legal claim to something
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("disclaimer" is a kind of...):
renunciation; repudiation (rejecting or disowning or disclaiming as invalid)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
Derivation:
disclaim (make a disclaimer about)
disclaim (renounce a legal claim or title to)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Denial of any connection with or knowledge of
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
disavowal; disclaimer
Hypernyms ("disclaimer" is a kind of...):
denial (the act of refusing to comply (as with a request))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "disclaimer"):
abjuration; recantation; retraction (a disavowal or taking back of a previous assertion)
Context examples
We investigated, and the lab said the blood vial was never refrigerated as it should have been and that they had a tiny disclaimer at the bottom of the report (that neither my doctor nor I had noticed) saying that the results might not be accurate.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
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