Job Outlook. Employment of general maintenance and repair workers is projected to grow 6 percent from 2014 to 2024, about as fast as the average for all occupations. Demand will increase as home sales continue to recover and rental and commercial properties continue to need maintenance and repair.
Definition of waive for English Language Learners. : to officially say that you will not use or require something that you are allowed to have or that is usually required.
c.1300, from Anglo-French weyver to abandon, waive, Old French weyver, guever to abandon, give back, probably from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse veifa to swing about, from Proto-Germanic *waibijanan (see waif). In Middle English legal language, used of rights, goods, or women. Related: Waived; waiving.