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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

• DISCLAIMER (noun)

Sense 1

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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)

Sense 2

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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)

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