disclaimer

English

Etymology

Partly from Middle English discleymer, from Anglo-Norman desclamer; and partly from disclaim +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /dɪsˈkleɪm.ɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /dɪsˈkleɪm.ə/
• Hyphenation: dis‧claim‧er

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -eɪmə(ɹ)

Noun

disclaimer (plural disclaimers)

1. One who disclaims, disowns, or renounces.
2. A public disavowal, as of responsibility, pretensions, claims, opinions, etc.
3. (law) A denial, disavowal, or renunciation, as of a title, claim, interest, estate, or trust; relinquishment or waiver of an interest or estate.
4. (proscribed) A disclosure of an interest, relationship, or the like.
   • May 10 2012, Anant Rangaswami, “No need for regulation in media – it’s happening by itself”, in Firstpost:

     It interviewed, among others, the director of Vasant Valley School, owned by the same family that part-owns Mail Today. No disclaimer was carried stating as much.

   • April 23 2018, Hallie Detrick, “What We Know About Sean Hannity's Shell Companies and Why It Matters”, in Fortune:

     Though the fact that the two men do business together was disclosed on air, a recent op-ed penned by Lako and published on the Hannity show’s website had no such disclaimer.

Usage notes

• The use in the sense of a disclosure rather than a disavowal is a recent extension in meaning that may be considered incorrect usage.

Translations

one who disclaims

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 免責者／免责者

• Finnish: kiistäjä (fi), kieltäjä (fi), irtisanoutuja, luopuja
• Spanish: renunciador

public disavowal

• Bulgarian: отричане (bg) n (otričane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Danish: ansvarsfraskrivelse c, disclaimer c
• Finnish: vastuuvapauslauseke (fi), vastuunrajaus, vastuunrajauslauseke (denial of responsibility); kiistäminen (fi), kieltäminen (fi), irtisanoutuminen (fi), lupuminen
• French: clause de non-responsabilité f
• German: Haftungsausschluss m, Ausschlussklausel f, Verzichtserklärung (de) f, Ablehnungshinweis m, Schrankenerklärung f
• Greek: αποποίηση (el) f (apopoíisi), αποκήρυξη (el) f (apokíryxi)
• Hungarian: felelősségkizárás, felelősségelhárítás
• Polish: zrzeczenie się n
• Portuguese: cláusula de desresponsabilização f
• Spanish: disclaimer m (United States), aviso legal m, descargo de responsabilidad m, cláusula de renuncia de responsabilidad f, cláusula de exención de responsabilidad m, advertencia (es) f

law: denial, disavowal, or renunciation (as of a title, claim, interest, estate, or trust; relinquishment or waiver of an interest or estate)

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Azerbaijani: farağatnamə
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 免責聲明／免责声明 (zh) (miǎnzé shēngmíng)

• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: kiistäminen (fi), kieltäytyminen (fi), luopuminen (fi), irtisanoutuminen (fi)
• French: please add this translation if you can
• German: Nichtanerkennung (de) f, Gegenerklärung f, Widerruf (de) m
• Greek: αποποίηση (el) f (apopoíisi)
• Hungarian: lemondás (hu), feladás (hu), jogfeladás
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Malayalam: നിരാകരണം (ml) (nirākaraṇaṁ)
• Polish: zrzeczenie się n
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: sorumluluk reddi, feragatname

Verb

disclaimer (third-person singular simple present disclaimers, present participle disclaimering, simple past and past participle disclaimered)

1. (transitive, informal) To disclaim or disavow, as by appending a legal disclaimer.
   • 2005, Raven Kaldera, Pagan Polyamory: Becoming a Tribe of Hearts, page 229:

     When you can hear your lover say that painful thing straight up, without a lot of disclaimering or softening to make sure that your feelings will be hurt as little as possible, […]

   • 2015, Evan Butler, Guardians of Life, page 45:

     Now that I have disclaimered myself, I can tell you the story of how one of the guards smoked Salvia divinorum and tripped balls for fifteen minutes […]

References

• “disclaimer”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Old French

Verb

disclaimer

1. Alternative form of desclamer

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ms, *-mt are modified to ns, nt. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

    Conjugation of disclaimer (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		disclaimer			avoir disclaimé
gerund		en disclaimant			gerund of avoir + past participle
present participle		disclaimant
past participle		disclaimé
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		jo	tu	il	nos	vos	il
simple tenses	present	disclaim	disclaimes	disclaime	disclaimons	disclaimez	disclaiment
	imperfect	disclaimoie, disclaimeie, disclaimoe, disclaimeve	disclaimoies, disclaimeies, disclaimoes, disclaimeves	disclaimoit, disclaimeit, disclaimot, disclaimeve	disclaimiiens, disclaimiens	disclaimiiez, disclaimiez	disclaimoient, disclaimeient, disclaimoent, disclaimevent
	preterite	disclaimai	disclaimas	disclaima	disclaimames	disclaimastes	disclaimerent
	future	disclaimerai	disclaimeras	disclaimera	disclaimerons	disclaimeroiz, disclaimereiz, disclaimerez	disclaimeront
	conditional	disclaimeroie, disclaimereie	disclaimeroies, disclaimereies	disclaimeroit, disclaimereit	disclaimeriiens, disclaimeriens	disclaimeriiez, disclaimeriez	disclaimeroient, disclaimereient
compound tenses	present perfect	present tense of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect tense of avoir + past participle
	past anterior	preterite tense of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future tense of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional tense of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que jo	que tu	qu’il	que nos	que vos	qu’il
simple tenses	present	disclaim	disclains	disclaint	disclaimons	disclaimez	disclaiment
	imperfect	disclaimasse	disclaimasses	disclaimast	disclaimissons, disclaimissiens	disclaimissoiz, disclaimissez, disclaimissiez	disclaimassent
compound tenses	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nos	vos	–
		—	disclaime	—	disclaimons	disclaimez	—