Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A warning or caution.
- noun A qualification or explanation.
- noun Law 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 Law To make a caveat to (a will, for example).
- intransitive verb Informal To qualify with a warning or clarification.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To enter a caveat.
- In fencing, to shift the sword from one side of an adversary's sword to the other.
- 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Law) A notice given by an interested party to some officer not to do a certain act until the party is heard in opposition
- noun (U. S. Patent Laws) 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 (Law) let the purchaser beware, i. e., let him examine the article he is buying, and act on his own judgment.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
warning - noun a
qualification orexception - noun law a
notice requesting apostponement of acourt proceeding - noun law 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 law To lodge a formal notice of interest in land, under a Torrens land-title system
- verb law, dated To issue a
notice requesting thatproceedings be suspended - verb obsolete To warn or
caution against some event
from 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
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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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Never before, for those who wish a healthful, light diet, has the phrase caveat emptor Let the buyer beware! been more appropriate.
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Never before, for those who wish a healthful, light diet, has the phrase caveat emptor Let the buyer beware! been more appropriate.
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Never before, for those who wish a healthful, light diet, has the phrase caveat emptor Let the buyer beware! been more appropriate.
Make It Easy Make It Light Laurie Burrows Grad 1987
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Never before, for those who wish a healthful, light diet, has the phrase caveat emptor Let the buyer beware! been more appropriate.
Make It Easy Make It Light Laurie Burrows Grad 1987
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Never before, for those who wish a healthful, light diet, has the phrase caveat emptor Let the buyer beware! been more appropriate.
Make It Easy Make It Light Laurie Burrows Grad 1987
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The one caveat is that his team has yet to beat an ACC team with a winning record.
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Soon after Louisa Strittmater pa ssed away in 1944, her estrangedrelatives—one uncle and two cousins—filed caveats to challenge the willin the Essex County Orphan’s Court.
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