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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
caveat
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
caveat emptor
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
important
▪ An important caveat to this is that the agreement must be fair and reasonable.
▪ Using consolidation to get rid of duplicative layers or segments is fine, with an important caveat.
▪ But as Professor Smith himself notes, there is one important caveat to this argument.
■ NOUN
emptor
▪ The caveat emptor doctrine has been mitigated by the implied terms as to quality.
▪ When it comes to polling, surveys, and public opinion research, caveat emptor is the rule, not the exception.
▪ It is very much a case of caveat emptor.
▪ My final words would be caveat emptor - let the buyer beware.
▪ There's a legal term, caveat emptor, which means buyer beware, so when viewing it pays to be suspicious.
▪ But caveat emptor, once you're home, you're on your own.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But there are a variety of caveats in both laws.
▪ Catherine Destivelle issued a similar caveat from the floor about the situation in the Alps.
▪ Despite these caveats archive film is extremely useful.
▪ Still, it is the best information available, so with those caveats, the show goes on.
▪ With this caveat, some trends can be seen.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Caveat

Caveat \Ca"ve*at\, n. [L. caved let him beware, pres. subj. of cavere to be on one's guard to, beware.]

  1. (Law) A notice given by an interested party to some officer not to do a certain act until the party is heard in opposition; as, a caveat entered in a probate court to stop the proving of a will or the taking out of letters of administration, etc.
    --Bouvier.

  2. (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.

    Note: A caveat is operative for one year only, but may be renewed.

  3. Intimation of caution; warning; protest.

    We think it right to enter our caveat against a conclusion.
    --Jeffrey.

    Caveat emptor [L.] (Law), let the purchaser beware, i. e., let him examine the article he is buying, and act on his own judgment.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
caveat

1540s, from Latin, literally "let him beware," 3rd person singular present subjunctive of cavere "to beware, take heed, watch, guard against," from PIE root *skeue- "to pay attention, perceive" (cognates: Sanskrit kavih "wise, sage, seer, poet;" Lithuanian kavoti "tend, safeguard;" Armenian cucanem "I show;" Latin cautio "wariness;" Greek koein "to mark, perceive, hear," kydos "glory, fame," literally "that which is heard of;" Old Church Slavonic chujo "to feel, perceive, hear," cudo "wonder," literally "that which is heard of;" Czech (z)koumati "to perceive, be aware of;" Serbian chuvati "watch, heed;" Old English sceawian "to look at" (source of show (v.)); Middle Dutch schoon "beautiful, bright," properly "showy;" Gothic hausjan "hear").

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caveat

n. 1 a warning 2 a qualification or exemption 3 (context legal English) a notice requesting a postponement of a court proceeding 4 (context legal English) a formal notice of interest in land, under a http://en.wikipedi

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  2. To qualify a particular statement with a proviso or #Noun

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WordNet
caveat

  1. n. a warning against certain acts; "a caveat against unfair practices" [syn: caution]

  2. (law) a formal notice filed with a court or officer to suspend a proceeding until filer is given a hearing; "a caveat filed against the probate of a will"

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Wikipedia
Caveat

Caveat may refer to

Latin phrases:

  • Caveat lector ("let the reader beware")
  • Caveat emptor ("let the buyer beware")
  • Caveat venditor ("let the seller beware")

Other:

  • CAVEAT, a Canadian lobby group
  • Caveat, an album by Nuclear Death
  • Caveat (horse) (fl. 1983)
  • Classified information in the United States#Handling caveats
Caveat (horse)

Caveat (1980–1995) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse. Bred in Maryland) by Ryehill Farm, he was sired by Kentucky Derby winner Cannonade out of The Axe II mare Cold Hearted. To date, Caveat is one of eleven Maryland-bred colts to win a Triple Crown race.

Caveat was owned by the partnership of August Belmont IV, Robert Kirkham, and his breeder, James P. Ryan. He was conditioned for racing by U.S. Racing Hall of Fame trainer Woody Stephens. As a two-year-old, Caveat placed second in the Grade II Lane's End Breeders' Futurity Stakes with Eddie Maple aboard.

At age three, Caveat won the Prince John Stakes and came in second in the Arkansas Derby three weeks prior to the Derby. Woody Stephens felt like he needed a little tightening up, so he ran Caveat six days before the Derby and won the Derby Trial. Then in May, he placed third in the Kentucky Derby behind Sunny's Halo. Five weeks later, under jockey Laffit Pincay, Jr., he won the Belmont Stakes against a record field of 15 horses, straining a ligament in his right foreleg at the top of the stretch in the process. The injury was the cause of his eventual retirement.

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Usage examples of "caveat".

NSA decided it was administratively too difficult to determine whether particular reports derived from the specific surveillances authorized by the attorney general, NSA decided to place this caveat on all its terrorism-related reports.

The first innovator who fully understood this third caveat was probably Thomas Edison.

National Intelligence Estimate did not mention the yellowcake among its key findings, and carried caveats from the State Department that cast doubt on the assertion.

Having more accurate weapons does mean that it requires fewer sorties to destroy any given target, but there are a lot of important caveats to this.

Magus was grappled directly to the central portion of the Caveat Emptor.

Amarok explained that Costa made some money off his docking fees, but in the main from owning a piece of every business based in the Caveat Emptor.

Disagreements could be settled in a grappled ship or under Enforcer supervision in Caveat Emptor.

The containers also kept out the winged insects and other flying pests that infested Caveat Emptor.

Alacrity were obliged to check their sidearms and leave their bodyguard behind at Bulkhead Twenty, far forward in Caveat Emptor toward the bridge and the living quarters of her owner and master, Costa.

She leaves me to contemplate her typically vague caveat, sitting beside the children in the morning.

Whatever the caveats, this little tube proved that humanity was neither some unique mistake of Nature, nor necessarily had dominion over field and fowl.

This vital consideration raises two caveats regarding the support that the opposition could provide to an invasion.

Lest these conclusions be misinterpreted, we should end this chapter with caveats against exaggerating two points: peoples' readiness to accept better crops and livestock, and the constraints imposed by locally available wild plants and animals.

Nevertheless, as we'll see, recognizing these major groups is still so useful for understanding history that I'll use the group names as shorthand, without repeating the above caveats in every sentence.

See the text for caveats about describing distributions of African peoples in terms of these familiar but problematical groupings.