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."
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(law) a voluntary repudiation of a person's legal claim to something
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type of:
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renunciation, repudiation
rejecting or disowning or disclaiming as invalid
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renunciation, repudiation
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denial of any connection with or knowledge of
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synonyms:
disavowal
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types:
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abjuration, recantation, retraction
a disavowal or taking back of a previous assertion
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backdown, climb-down, withdrawal
a retraction of a previously held position
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type of:
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denial
the act of refusing to comply (as with a request)
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abjuration, recantation, retraction
Vocabulary lists containing disclaimer
After relocating to Austin, Texas, a Canadian teenager attempts to make sense of American culture.
In 19th-century Atlanta, Jo Kuan works as a lady's maid while secretly penning a controversial advice column and attempting to learn the truth about her past.
When her parents take jobs at a western theme park in Arizona, Aven gets caught up in a local mystery — and tries to adjust to a new school.
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