caveat
a warning
TRANSLATION
caveat = Warnung; Vorbehalt; Einspruch; Verwahrung; Mahnung --- GOOGLE INDEX 19,300,000 hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
"One CAVEAT: If you plan to travel by car in Europe,... gasoline costs twice as much in France as in the U.S., and triple the U.S. price in the U.K."
Lynn Woods, "Euro Trashed"
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"At Disney, Eisner says, adding an important CAVEAT, 'Failing is good, as long as it doesn't become a habit.'"
Warren Bennis and Patricia Ward Biederman, Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration)
Lynn Woods, "Euro Trashed"
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"At Disney, Eisner says, adding an important CAVEAT, 'Failing is good, as long as it doesn't become a habit.'"
Warren Bennis and Patricia Ward Biederman, Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration)
Did you
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The term caveat stems from the Latin "cavere" meaning to beware, take heed, watch, guard against. It is essentially a warning that something may not be true or effective. Some people might argue that a caveat is nothing more than a way to "cover your bases," meaning to protect yourself by claiming beforehand that something "may" not turn out the way you claim.
If you invite someone to a restaurant that you have never been to before yourself, by stating "I've never been to this restaurant," you are basically making a caveat.
If you sell your car to an individual for instance, you can make a caveat that there is no guarantee the car does not have a defect.
Caveat is frequently used in legal circles and is found in Latin phrases such as:
- caveat lector = let the reader beware
- caveat emptor = let the buyer beware
- caveat venditor = let the seller beware
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SYNONYMS
admonition, alarm, caution, forewarning, sign
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SMUGGLE OWAD INTO A CONVERSATION TODAY
say something like:
"Let me make one caveat before I answer your question."
The term caveat stems from the Latin "cavere" meaning to beware, take heed, watch, guard against. It is essentially a warning that something may not be true or effective. Some people might argue that a caveat is nothing more than a way to "cover your bases," meaning to protect yourself by claiming beforehand that something "may" not turn out the way you claim.
If you invite someone to a restaurant that you have never been to before yourself, by stating "I've never been to this restaurant," you are basically making a caveat.
If you sell your car to an individual for instance, you can make a caveat that there is no guarantee the car does not have a defect.
Caveat is frequently used in legal circles and is found in Latin phrases such as:
- caveat lector = let the reader beware
- caveat emptor = let the buyer beware
- caveat venditor = let the seller beware
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SYNONYMS
admonition, alarm, caution, forewarning, sign
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SMUGGLE OWAD INTO A CONVERSATION TODAY
say something like:
"Let me make one caveat before I answer your question."
