early-warning system

[ ur-lee wawr-ning ]

/ ˈɜr li ˈwɔr nɪŋ /

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noun

Military. a network of radar installations designed to detect enemy aircraft or missiles in time for the effective deployment of defense systems.

any series of steps established to spot potential problems.

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Origin of early-warning system

First recorded in 1945–50

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How to use early-warning system in a sentence

Fighting climate change — investing in clean energy, climate-smart agriculture, early-warning systems and resilient infrastructure — takes money and resources that developing countries often lack.
What climate activists from six countries want to see at COP26|Joy Yi|November 5, 2021|Washington Post
It promises to make major investments in critical areas where we do not do nearly enough, from surveillance and early-warning systems to real-time tracking of viral evolution.
Vaccines Can’t End Pandemics Alone—And We’ve Known That Since We Eradicated Smallpox|Kyle Harper|October 5, 2021|Time
The new ScanWatch from Withings is an early-warning system that can signal when a trip to the doctor for a full-blown sleep study might be in order.
The 100 greatest innovations of 2020|Popular Science Staff|December 2, 2020|Popular-Science
Early voting is the early-warning system as the hurricane is coming,” he says, “and this year it looks like a category 5.
Has Obama Already Won?|Will Doig|October 29, 2008|DAILY BEAST

British Dictionary definitions for early-warning system

early warning system

noun

a network of radar and communications units intended to detect at the earliest possible moment an attack by enemy aircraft or missiles

anything that gives advance notice of something

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