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disclaimer

disclaimers

A disclaimer is a statement that rejects a legal claim. If you're speaking on Russian history and don't want to be quoted, offer a disclaimer that all your information comes from Wikipedia and you're not responsible for its accuracy.

A claim is the assertion that you have a right to something, so a disclaimer is the opposite: the rejection of a claim. If you don't want to keep the money you're inheriting, you can file a disclaimer and pass all the money on to a charity. Although disclaimer comes from talking about legal claims, we also use it in general to mean "denial" or "repudiation."

Definitions of disclaimer
  1. noun
    (law) a voluntary repudiation of a person's legal claim to something
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    type of:
    renunciation, repudiation
    rejecting or disowning or disclaiming as invalid
  2. noun
    denial of any connection with or knowledge of
    synonyms: disavowal
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    types:
    abjuration, recantation, retraction
    a disavowal or taking back of a previous assertion
    backdown, climb-down, withdrawal
    a retraction of a previously held position
    type of:
    denial
    the act of refusing to comply (as with a request)
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