Definitions for caveat

caveat ca·ve·at

Spelling: [kav-ee-aht, -at, kah-vee-, key-]
IPA: /ˈkæv iˌɑt, -ˌæt, ˈkɑ vi-, keɪ-/

Caveat is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 84 anagrams from letters in caveat (aacetv).

Definitions for caveat

noun

  1. a warning or caution; admonition.
  2. Law. a legal notice to a court or public officer to suspend a certain proceeding until the notifier is given a hearing:

Origin of caveat

Latin: let him beware, 3rd person singular present subjunctive of cavēre to take care; see caution

Examples for caveat

Instead, MacMillan has the temerity to issue a caveat mid-thrust.

This plan is preferred by many inventors to filing a caveat.

Such a caveat is welcoming after having been force-fed the western canon by certain others.

But then, just when we feared that the Cox we suspected we knew was about to get too schmaltzy, too idyllic, she adds a caveat.

A gentleman: that was an argument against which it was futile to enter a caveat.

Hulagu then gave his men licence to rape, kill and plunder with the caveat that Christians and Jews were to be spared.

The one caveat: Asprey advises only buying butter made from grass-fed or pastured cows.

But, if he does, he can at once enter a caveat in the Probate Registry.

I felt I must give you the opportunity of entering a caveat.

That sense of caveat donor was perhaps their most pathetic characteristic.

Word Value for caveat
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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