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raises the flag and sees who salutes

raises the flag and sees who salutes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of raise the flag and see who salutes.

Meaning of raise the flag and see who salutes

Verb

raise the flag and see who salutes (third-person singular simple present raises the flag and sees who salutes, present participle raising the flag and seeing who salutes, simple past raised the flag and saw who saluted, past participle raised the flag and seen who saluted)

  1. (US, idiomatic) To float an idea, (or otherwise do some action) to see what response or controversy it generates, usually as a preliminary step.
    • Much of the discourse on and the spirit of group interaction have an improvisational flavor: we “float trial balloons” in the groups we belong to or “raise a flag and see who salutes.”1996, Jo Ann Oravec, Virtual individuals, virtual groups: Human Dimensions of Groupware and Computer Networking, page 312

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Raises the flag and sees who salutes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of raise the flag and see who salutes.

Words near raises the flag and sees who salutes in the dictionary

  1. raises the alarm
  2. raises the ante
  3. raises the bar
  4. raises the dead
  5. raises the devil
  6. raises the flag and sees who salutes
  7. raises the roof
  8. raises the specter
  9. raises the spectre
  10. raises the stakes
  11. raises to the ermine

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