waive privilege
C2CEFR level
78/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
To relinquish, expressly or by conduct, the protection that privilege would otherwise afford a document or communication.
By deploying the advice in support of its defence, the company had waived privilege over the whole of the relevant file.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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