early-warning

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Adjective

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early-warning (not comparable)

  1. (attributive) Denoting equipment and systems designed to give sufficient warning of an impending event.
    • 2022 February 23, Tony Streeter, “Network News: NR begins early-warning landslip monitoring trial”, in RAIL, number 951, page 24:
      Network Rail is trialling a monitoring system that will give early warning of landslips.

Usage notes

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Also used without a hyphen as "early warning", both as an attributive and a noun.

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