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"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "precautioned",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "precautioned",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "precaution (third-person singular simple present precautions, present participle precautioning, simple past and past participle precautioned)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"pre‧cau‧tion"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To warn or caution beforehand."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To warn or caution beforehand."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with rare senses",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To take precaution against."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, rare) To take precaution against."
],
"tags": [
"rare",
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/pɹiːˈkɔːʃən/"
},
{
"ipa": "/pɹiːˈkɔː.ʃən/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/pɹiːˈkɔ.ʃən/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/pɹiːˈkɑ.ʃən/",
"tags": [
"cot-caught-merger"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[pɹiːˈkɑ.ʃn̩]",
"tags": [
"cot-caught-merger"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/pɹɪˈkɑ.ʃən/",
"tags": [
"cot-caught-merger"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[pɹɪˈkɑ.ʃn̩]",
"tags": [
"cot-caught-merger"
]
},
{
"audio": "En-us-precaution.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/c0/En-us-precaution.ogg/En-us-precaution.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/En-us-precaution.ogg"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "predpazvam",
"sense": "To warn or caution beforehand",
"word": "предпазвам"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "To warn or caution beforehand",
"word": "whakatūpato"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "vzimam merki",
"sense": "To take precaution against",
"word": "взимам мерки"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "To take precaution against",
"word": "ryhtyä varotoimenpiteisiin"
}
],
"word": "precaution"
}
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