early-warning

English

Adjective

early-warning (not comparable)

1. (attributive) Denoting equipment and systems designed to give sufficient warning of an impending event.
   • 2022 February 23, Tony Streeter, “Network News: NR begins early-warning landslip monitoring trial”, in RAIL, number 951, page 24:

     Network Rail is trialling a monitoring system that will give early warning of landslips.

Usage notes

• Also used without a hyphen as "early warning", both attributively and as a noun.

Derived terms

• early warning system

Further reading

• “early-warning”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• Early-warning radar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia