1 [U] care that you take in order to avoid danger or mistakes; not taking any risks:
extreme / great caution * Statistics should be treated with caution. * He could find himself making enemies as well as friends unless he proceeds with the utmost caution.
2 [C] (BrE) a warning that is given by the police to sb who has committed a crime that is not too serious:
As a first offender, she got off with a caution.
3 [U,C] (formal) a warning or a piece of advice about a possible danger or risk:
a word / note of caution * Some cautions must be mentioned-for example good tools are essential to do the job well.
IDIOMS
throw / cast caution to the wind(s) to stop caring about how dangerous sth might be; to start taking risks:
He threw caution to the wind and dived into the water after the child.
Part of speech: verb
1 ~ (sb) against sth
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for caution is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is caution a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, caution is tagged as noun.
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