Caveat

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A warning or caution.
  • noun. A qualification or explanation.
  • noun. A formal notice filed by an interested party requesting postponement of a court proceeding or other action until the filer can be heard.
  • intransitive verb. To submit a caveat.
  • intransitive verb. To make a caveat to (a will, for example).
  • intransitive verb. To qualify with a warning or clarification.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In law, a notice filed or noted in a public office to prevent some proceeding being had except after warning to the caveator, or person making the caveat: as, a caveat filed with the probate court against the probate of a will.
  • noun. Figuratively, intimation of caution; warning; admonition; hint.
  • To enter a caveat.
  • In fencing, to shift the sword from one side of an adversary's sword to the other.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A notice given by an interested party to some officer not to do a certain act until the party is heard in opposition
  • noun. A description of some invention, designed to be patented, lodged in the patent office before the patent right is applied for, and operating as a bar to the issue of letters patent to any other person, respecting the same invention.
  • noun. Intimation of caution; warning; protest.
  • noun. let the purchaser beware, i. e., let him examine the article he is buying, and act on his own judgment.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. a warning
  • noun. a qualification or exception
  • noun. a notice requesting a postponement of a court proceeding
  • noun. a formal notice of interest in land, under a Torrens land-title system
  • verb. To qualify a particular statement with a proviso or caveat
  • verb. To lodge a formal notice of interest in land, under a Torrens land-title system
  • verb. To issue a notice requesting that proceedings be suspended
  • verb. To warn or caution against some event
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. (law) a formal notice filed with a court or officer to suspend a proceeding until filer is given a hearing
  • noun. a warning against certain acts
  • Word Usage
    "The main caveat is making sure you have enough money to return to the states and set up house again as part of a fallback plan."
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