CAVEAT (Noun)

Meaning- 1) An explanation or warning that should be remembered when you are doing or thinking about something.

                        2) A legal warning to a judicial officer to suspend a proceeding until the opposition has a hearing.

Mnemonic trick- The word caveat contains word cave. There is a caveat that if you enter the cave, Lion will eat you. Therefore, caveat means explanation or warning that should be remembered when you are doing or thinking about something.

Synonym- PROVISO, WARNING.PRINCIPLE

Uses-

• ·         His investment advice comes with a caveat: that the stock market is impossible to predict with absolute accuracy.
• ·         It is appropriate to issue certain caveats here.
• ·         I have to add our usual caveat to the agreement.
• ·         It was early recognized- and, indeed, is mentioned in the first patents of Bell, and in a caveat-filled by Elisha Gray in the United States patent office only some two hours after Bell’ s application for a patent – that sounds and spoken words might be transmitted to a distance by causing the vibrations of a diaphragm to vary the resistance in the circuit.