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View definitions for take precautions

take precautions

verb as in play it safe

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Example Sentences

When they had passed beyond sight of the Cheyenne village, he began to take precautions.

The journalist was duly pitied; he would take precautions against Dinah's jealousy when he accepted an invitation.

Stern had to take precautions for his safety, adopting native dress and passing as the "Dervish Abdallah."

In a few hours the supports of the tree became so weak that it was time to take precautions lest it should fall on us.

"Not if we do not take precautions to hoodwink these people," thought our hero.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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