Disclaimerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General American) IPA: /dɪsˈkleɪm.ɚ/, /ˈdɪskleɪm.ɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /dɪsˈkleɪm.ə/
• ハイフネーション: dis‧claim‧er
• 韻: -eɪmə(ɹ)

名詞

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.
   • 1963, Parliament of the United Kingdom, “section 1(1)”, in Peerage Act 1963‎, page 1:

     Subject to the provisions of this section, any person who, after the commencement of this Act, succeeds to a peerage in the peerage of England, Scotland, Great Britain or the United Kingdom may, by an instrument of disclaimer delivered to the Lord Chancellor within the period prescribed by this Act, disclaim that peerage for his life.

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.

使用する際の注意点

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

動詞

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 […]

参照

• “disclaimer”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.