| Advertisement | Out of every 1,000 people, the most organized person will probably achieve the most, do it faster with the least amount of effort AND have the most free time... I Am Organized Now! can help you be that one in a 1,000. Save $10 now during the introduction of I Am Organized Now! Click here to learn how simple & easy it is to be truly organized. | | Word of the Day for Friday, April 21, 2006 | | caveat \KAY-vee-at; KAV-ee-; KAH-vee-aht\, noun: 1. (Law) A notice given by an interested party to some officer not to do a certain act until the opposition has a hearing. 2. A warning or caution; also, a cautionary qualification or explanation to prevent misunderstanding. | | | Two young Harvard M.B.A.'s worked up some highly optimistic projections -- with the caveat that these were speculative and should of course be tested. -- Roy Blount Jr., "Able Were They Ere They Saw Cable", New York Times, March 9, 1986 One caveat: If you plan to travel by car in Europe, expect a serious erosion of your buying power. 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", Kiplinger's, November 2000 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 | |
| Caveat comes from the Latin caveat, "let him beware," from cavere, "to beware." Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for caveat | | Yesterday's Word - Previous Words - Help | | Please visit our Sponsors | | | | |
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