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on notice

on notice prepositional phrase: informed or warned about something.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (idiomatic) Informed or warned about something.
    • He was put on notice about lateness.
    • We are all on notice about likely layoffs.

Examples of on notice in a sentence

  • Williams, the decision to award his client $6,000 has put police on notice that they cannot harass suspected homosexuals.1979 April 14, “Gay Man Wins Beating Case”, in Gay Community News, page 1:
  • Operations on C++ volatiles do put the compiler on notice that the object may be modified asynchronously, and hence are generally safer to use than ordinary variable accesses.2011, Victor Pankratius, Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai, Walter Tichy, Fundamentals of Multicore Software Development, page 74:

Questions about on notice

What does on notice mean?
On notice means informed or warned about something.
How do you use on notice in a sentence?
Williams, the decision to award his client $6,000 has put police on notice that they cannot harass suspected homosexuals.
What part of speech is on notice?
On notice is a prepositional phrase.

Words near on notice in the dictionary

  1. on message
  2. on my life
  3. on net
  4. on no account
  5. on nodding terms
  6. on notice
  7. on oath
  8. on occasion
  9. on offer
  10. on one hand
  11. on one's back

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