Caveat

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Caveat (pronounced /ˈkævɪæt/), the third-person singular present subjunctive of the Latin cavere, means "warning" (or more literally, "let him beware", "let her beware" or "let it beware"); it can be shorthand for Latin phrases such as:

• Caveat lector, "let the reader beware"
• Caveat emptor, "let the buyer beware"
• Caveat venditor, "let the seller beware"

Caveat may also refer to:

• CAVEAT, a Canadian lobby group
• Paulette Caveat about certain First Nations rights to northern Canada
• Patent caveat, a legal document filed with the United States Patent Office
• Caveat, an album by Nuclear Death
• Caveat (horse), a thoroughbred race horse in the 1983 Kentucky Derby
• Legal Caveat is the name of a notice given by a party having an interest, to some officer, not to do an act, till the party giving the notice shall have been heard.

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