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n. A warning or caution: "A final caveat: Most experts feel that clients get unsatisfactory results when they don't specify clearly what they want” ( Savvy).

n. A qualification or explanation.

n. Law A formal notice filed by an interested party with a court or officer, requesting the postponement of a proceeding until the filer is heard.

verb-intransitive. Law To enter a caveat.

v. Informal To qualify with a warning or clarification: The spokesperson caveated the statement with a reminder that certain facts were still unknown.

n. a warning

n. a qualification or exception

n. a notice requesting a postponement of a court proceeding

n. a formal notice of interest in land, under a Torrens land-title system

v. To qualify a particular statement with a proviso or caveat

v. To lodge a formal notice of interest in land, under a Torrens land-title system

v. To issue a notice requesting that proceedings be suspended

v. To warn or caution against some event

n. A notice given by an interested party to some officer not to do a certain act until the party is heard in opposition

n. 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.

n. Intimation of caution; warning; protest.

n. 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.

n. 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.

n. (law) a formal notice filed with a court or officer to suspend a proceeding until filer is given a hearing

n. a warning against certain acts

"Never before, for those who wish a healthful, light diet, has the phrase caveat emptor Let the buyer beware! been more appropriate."

notice    warning   

caveating   

caveat emptor    caveat lector   

caveatee    uncaveated    caveator    caveatable    caveatory    caveatrix   

warning    protest   

emptor    drawback    aliquem    memini    horunc    wringer    verborum    formost    neovascularization