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UK
/lˈʊkaʊt/
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[ US /ˈɫʊˌkaʊt/ ]
[ US /ˈɫʊˌkaʊt/ ]
NOUN
- a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
- a structure commanding a wide view of its surroundings
- the act of looking out
- an elevated post affording a wide view
How To Use lookout In A Sentence
- Jealous Liberal Journalists Attack Keith Olbermann yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Jealous Liberal Journalists Attack Keith Olbermann'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: Lookout Keith Olbermann: now that you are more popular than Bill O\'Reilly in the cable news Neilson ratings, you must confront an even bigger monster, an even more tenacious adversary, an egomaniacally superior life-species: establishment liberal journalists.' Jealous Liberal Journalists Attack Keith Olbermann
- You have to be on the lookout for new ones all the time. Times, Sunday Times
- If Erik's secrets cease to be Erik's secrets, it will be a bad lookout for a goodly number of the human race!
- They will deduce that there are fewer officers on the lookout for proper offenders, such as drunken drivers or those without insurance. Times, Sunday Times
- Acquire the ability to recognize and be on the lookout for overglaze decals in the center of a plate, platter, bowl or the like, as well as overglaze backstamps.
- This fire-lookout platform is 190ft up a karri tree and it's a gut-busting climb up 153 metal pegs. Times, Sunday Times
- New TUC research smashes the myth that public servants are always on the lookout for an excuse to pull a 'sickie' and challenges claims that there are easy savings to be had from cracking down on absence in the public sector. Indymedia Ireland
- Today, it hunts alone a sign the dingo is probably the lookout for a small game.
- Be on the lookout for Caribbean dove, West Indian woodpecker, Cuban bullfinch, and smooth-billed ani.
- He moved silently, on the lookout for tracks, droppings or other animal signs.