Caveat

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

• Caveat lector
• Caveat emptor
• Caveat venditor

More narrowly, caveat can also refer to

• CAVEAT, a Canadian lobby group;
• A Canadian metal band named Caveat based in Calgary, Alberta under the Cyclone Records label;
• The Paulette Caveat about certain First Nations rights to northern Canada;
• The name of an album by the U.S. metal band Nuclear Death
• A patent Caveat was like a patent application without claims and was an official notice of intention to file a patent application at a later date. Caveats were discontinued in 1909. Caveats were similar to Provisional Patent Applications used today in the US Patent Office.
• Caveat (horse), the name of a thoroughbred race horse, ran in the 1983 Kentucky Derby