on notice
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.90 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "He was put on notice about lateness."
- "We are all on notice about likely layoffs."
- "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."
- "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."