on notice

on notice

1. Informed or warned about something.

   He was put on notice about lateness.

   We are all on notice about likely layoffs.

   • 1979 April 14, “Gay Man Wins Beating Case”, in Gay Community News, page 1:

     According to Fifi's attorney, John R. Williams, the decision to award his client $6,000 has put police on notice that they cannot harass suspected homosexuals. "The beating in this case was sickening," said Williams. "Just because people are a little different, that's no excuse to beat them up — and juries won't stand for it anymore.

   • 2011, Victor Pankratius, Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai, Walter Tichy, Fundamentals of Multicore Software Development, page 74:

     Operations on C++ volatiles do put the compiler on notice that the object may be modified asynchronously, and hence are generally safer to use than ordinary variable accesses.

• “on notice”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.