Usually means: Warning of specific conditions, limitations.
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We found 46 dictionaries that define the word caveat:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. caveat: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. caveat: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. caveat: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. caveat: Collins English Dictionary
  5. caveat: Vocabulary.com
  6. Caveat, caveat: Wordnik
  7. caveat: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. caveat: Wiktionary
  9. caveat: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. caveat: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. caveat: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. caveat: Dictionary.com
  13. caveat: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Caveat (horse), Caveat: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Caveat: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. caveat: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. caveat: Rhymezone
  18. Caveat: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. caveat: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. caveat: Free Dictionary
  21. caveat: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. caveat: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. caveat: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. caveat: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  3. caveat: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  6. CAVEAT: Accounting Glossary
  7. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  8. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  9. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  10. Caveat: INSOLVENCY
  11. caveat: Legal dictionary
  12. caveat: Financial dictionary
  13. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  14. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  15. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. caveat: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CAVEAT: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. CAVEAT: Acronym Finder
  2. caveat: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. caveat: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A warning.
noun:  A qualification or exemption.
noun:  (law) A formal objection.
noun:  (law) A formal notice of interest in land under a Torrens land-title system.
noun:  (law) A notice requesting a postponement of a court proceeding.
verb:  (transitive, regarded by some as nonstandard) To qualify a statement with a caveat or proviso.
verb:  (transitive, law) To formally object to something.
verb:  (transitive, law, specifically) To lodge a formal notice of interest in land under a Torrens land-title system.
verb:  (transitive, law, dated) To issue a notice requesting that proceedings be suspended.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To warn or caution against some event.

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