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[KAY-vee-at', KAV-ee-at', KAW-vee-awt'] 
1. a warning, caution, or qualification: "Our strong preliminary numbers come with a serious caveat: The last four candidates with leading numbers at this stage of the campaign have lost."
2. (as in law) a formal notice filed with a court or officer to suspend a proceeding until filer is given a hearing; 'a caveat filed against the probate of a will'
Origin:
Approximately 1549; from earlier English, 'caveat emptor'; borrowed from Latin, 'caveat': let him beware, third person singular present subjunctive of 'cavere': to beware. In action:
"A wave of relief went over Marin County last week, after officials with the National Cancer Institute said that faulty data was used in calculating the county's breast cancer rate. Last year a Union City-based affiliate of the institute announced a 20 percent rise in Marin's already high cancer rate -- making the affluent county the No. 1 hotspot for breast cancer nationwide. Researchers recognized the error after reviewing 2000 census data for Marin. They use the data -- which details the ages, births and deaths of those living in a region -- to calculate breast cancer rates. But the last report on those rates used data from 1990-99, and the count of the number of middle-aged women in Marin was too low...there are simply more people living in Marin than researchers realized, reducing the per capita rate of breast cancer. The new data appear to put Marin's breast cancer rates in line with other West Coast communities, where rates are above the national average. For that reason, cancer researchers point out that the welcome news about Marin comes with a caveat: Breast cancer rates are still too high in Marin and elsewhere. 'I think there's some comfort that it's not as high as we thought, but it's still something we need to monitor and address,' West said."
Suzanne Bohan. "Marin breast cancer rates overestimated, but still high," Alameda Times-Star (April 7, 2003).
"The Mexico City policy -- so-called because it was announced there in 1984 by President Reagan -- forbids the United States from giving money to foreign, non-governmental organizations if they provide or 'promote' abortions. President Clinton suspended the policy in 1993, but Bush reinstated it in 2001.
Now, the Bush administration is considering extending the Mexico City policy to include HIV and AIDS clinics in developing countries. That would restrict the $15 billion promised by the president in his State of the Union Address on Jan. 28.
The administration is considering one caveat to the original program: Clinics could still receive funds if they keep their HIV and abortion operations strictly separate. But The Lancet editors and others say that's an unreasonable request."
Kristen Philipkoski. "Abortion Rule May Hinder AIDS Aid," Wired.com News (March 14, 2003).
"It is fitting that the Government of the United States should assume the obligation of the establishment and maintenance of a first-class university for the education of colored men ... and I wish to put in this caveat ... that the colored race today, all of them, would be better off if they all had university education.... Of course, the basis of education of the colored people is in the primary schools and in industrial schools.... In those schools must be introduced teachers from such university institutions as this."
William Howard Taft (1857-1930). U.S. president. Address at Howard University, Washington, D.C. (May 26, 1909).
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