early-warning system
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.
Origin of early-warning system
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How to use early-warning system in a sentence
Early voting is the early-warning system as the hurricane is coming,” he says, “and this year it looks like a category 5.
British Dictionary definitions for early warning system
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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