Meanings
- idiomaticInformed or warned about something.
He was put on notice about lateness.
3 more examples
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.
1979 April 14, “Gay Man Wins Beating Case”, in Gay Community News, page 1Operations 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
German gewarnt, vorgewarnt
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Spanish sobre aviso
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Cite this entry
on notice. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/on%20notice
“on notice.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/on%20notice. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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