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on notice en · ADP

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic) Informed or warned about something.
    • According to Fifi's attorney, John R. Williams, the decision to award his client $6,000 has put police on notice that they cannot harass suspected homosexuals. "The beating in this case was sickening," said Williams. "Just because people are a little different, that's no excuse to beat them up — and juries won't stand for it anymore. 1979 April 14, “Gay Man Wins Beating Case”, in Gay Community News, page 1:
    • We are all on notice about likely layoffs.
    • He was put on notice about lateness.
    • 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:

Translations (4)

de verwarnt (Translations) · es sobre aviso (Translations) · de gewarnt (Translations) · de vorgewarnt (Translations)