(n.) One who, or that which, is cast away or shipwrecked.
(n.) One who is ruined; one who has made moral shipwreck; a reprobate.
(a.) Of no value; rejected; useless.
Example Sentences:
(1) He is a survivor, it's true – but to turn to Cheney for advice about longevity is like interviewing the lone recovered castaway for tips on sea travel: you can ask him for his recipes but don't look too closely at the bones on the bottom of the boat.
(2) He plays Ben Gunn, the castaway who comes to figure in the second half of the two-part drama, which was filmed in Puerto Rico.
(3) The two most popular non-classical records chosen by castaways are the rather self-justificatory "Non, je ne regrette rien" and "My Way".
(4) He was one of my favourite castaways,” Young told the Radio Festival in Salford on Tuesday.
(5) These features are described and then compared with the similar experience of being a castaway after shipwreck.
(6) Jamil said more castaways were expected to emerge from the island.
(7) Unlike when David Cameron was a castaway, there were no indie hits or student favourites from the likes of Radiohead, The Smiths and REM.
(8) Release date tbc The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came To Eden Facebook Twitter Pinterest In a tale that's a bit like the BBC's Castaway, albeit more tropical, The Galapagos Affair tells the true story of a small group of Europeans who settled on one of the tiny Pacific islands in the 1930s.
(9) So, home secretary, did you agree to appear as a castaway to show a warmer, personal side?” asks the presenter, Kirsty Young, before many discs have been spun.
(10) And, like many political castaways, Clegg had something in the mix to show a different side to his character.
(11) He said that although reality TV programmes such as Castaway and I'm A Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here!
(12) Desert Island Discs presenter Kirsty Young has revealed she would take a Tom Jones song with her to a desert island because he “pulsated sexuality” and was one of her favourite castaways.
(13) Inspired by Jules Verne, this four-hour epic, which translates as The Castaways of the Fol Espoir (Sunrises), follows a group of people in 1914, escaping war in Europe on a boat.
(14) He picked This Charming Man – a track composed by Marr with the group's lead singer, Morrissey – when he was a castaway on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs four years ago.
(15) We're currently perched at Castaways Bar and Grill .
(16) It’s a short boat ride to Poliegos, a castaway island with magnificent beaches and a population of wild goats and rare birds.” She suggests staying at Milaki , a hotel in the port of Psathi (doubles from €70 B&B).
(17) Theresa May brought to you in conjunction with Toilet Duck.” Another Radio 4 stalwart, Desert Island Discs , had to be re-edited last year after the castaway Michael Bublé picked a Rolex watch as his luxury item without disclosing he was a brand ambassador for the company.
(18) If you love them you have to listen to them very, very carefully,” he said in reference to the passionately held but opposing views among believers during his appearance as guest castaway on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs .
(19) Interviewed on BBC's Radio 4 today by Kirsty Young, after choosing his preferred castaway music, Clegg revealed he "did enjoy the occasional cigarette", although he insisted he never lit up in public and that his children were entirely ignorant of the fact.
Waive
Definition:
(v. t.) A waif; a castaway.
(v. t.) A woman put out of the protection of the law. See Waive, v. t., 3 (b), and the Note.
(v. t.) To relinquish; to give up claim to; not to insist on or claim; to refuse; to forego.
(v. t.) To throw away; to cast off; to reject; to desert.
(v. t.) To throw away; to relinquish voluntarily, as a right which one may enforce if he chooses.
(v. t.) To desert; to abandon.
(v. i.) To turn aside; to recede.
Example Sentences:
(1) The HSE wants to streamline the assessment of new reactor designs by waiving certain aspects through a series of "exclusions".
(2) Told him we'll waive VAT on #BandAid30 so every penny goes to fight Ebola November 15, 2014 Thousands of onlookers turned out to watch the arrival of artists including One Direction, Paloma Faith, Disclosure, Jessie Ware, Ellie Goulding and Clean Bandit at Sarm studios in Notting Hill, west London .
(3) The chief executive has already waived his bonus for 2012 following the furore surrounding the £1m he was to be handed for 2011 before the political outcry forced him to hand it back.
(4) Under Spanish law, anyone who has more than €120,000 in undeclared income automatically faces a jail sentence, but this is generally waived if the offender agrees to pay.
(5) Ost claims that patients cannot make informed rational decisions without full information and that, therefore, the right to waive information also involves the right to waive one's responsibility to act as an autonomous moral agent.
(6) It directs agencies to “waive, defer, grant exemptions from, or delay” other penalties, fees, taxes and costs.
(7) The business secretary will instead back a voluntary scheme in which employers and staff can sign settlement agreements that would allow an employee to leave a company with a good reference providing they waived their right to pursue unfair dismissal proceedings at a tribunal.
(8) Lavery has waived his right to make an argument in court.
(9) But the Kumamoto governor was a fan, and cannily waived licensing fees for Kumamon, encouraging manufacturers to use him royalty-free.
(10) 2010 February: Waives £1.6m bonus after coming under pressure from ministers over his pay.
(11) Those who should never have been given loans and have fallen more than 30 days behind with repayments will have their debts wiped entirely, while a further 45,000 who are up to 30 days in arrears will have their interest and charges waived.
(12) Each day, he waived his right to a lawyer and his right to remain silent every day in writing, the affidavit states.
(13) Past fines ranged from €35,000-€50,000, against which organisers successfully appealed and had reduced or waived.
(14) The decision to waive the preferential treatment for the bailout fund on the Spanish rescue was a one-off that would not be repeated in any further programmes, Merkel said.
(15) They were, therefore, never “in law” and so could not be “oulawed”, hence they were “waived” instead.
(16) US telecommunications companies such as AT&T and T-Mobile are waiving the cost of texts offering donations.
(17) The assistant commissioner told MPs colleagues had written to the NYT again to urge them to waive that privilege because of the "quite exceptional circumstances" surrounding the case, but admitted he was "not hopeful".
(18) The EU agreed in September to waive tariffs on Pakistani textiles, but only temporarily.
(19) Vacant buildings are being pressed into service, and the usual high standards set by the immigration service are being waived.
(20) It has waived the administration fee for the duplicate ticket and sent you £50 in travel vouchers.