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no·ti·fy

notify

 
 
pronunciation:
no tih faI
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part of speech: transitive verb
inflections: notifies, notifying, notified
definition: to give notice to; tell or inform, esp. formally.
The contest judges notified the winners by mail.Who should we notify in case of an emergency?The landlord notified the tenants that the water would be shut off in the morning.[verb + smby + (that) + clause ]
synonyms:
acquaint, advise, apprise, inform, tell
similar words:
alert, enlighten, warn
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adverb + (v.)notify automatically, formally, hereby, immediately, officially, personally, please, promptly, properly, shortly
(v.)notify + adverb beforehand
(v.)notify + nounHelp administrator, advance, agency, airline, attorney, authority, breach, campus, captain, coast, consent, consumer, coroner, corps, counsel, credit, customer, defendant, delay, department, detective, e-mail, embassy, employee, employer, enforcement, escrow, family, guard, guardian, headquarters, healthcare, homeowner, homicide, husband, immigration, intent, investigator, issuer, kin, landlord, mail, monitoring, neighbor, offender, owner, parent, passenger, patrol, personnel, physician, police, postcard, prosecutor, provider, public, recipient, regulator, relative, resident, seller, sheriff, spouse, staff, supervisor, suspect, tech, telephone, tenant, user, writing [See all][See only the most frequent]
derivations: notifiable (adj.), notifier (n.)
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