Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - lookout
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n. 1 a watch or looking out (on the lookout for bargains). 2 a a post of observation. b a person or party or boat stationed to keep watch. 3 a view over a landscape. 4 a prospect of luck (it's a bad lookout for them). 5 colloq. a person's own concern. ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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(lookouts) 1. A lookout is a place from which you can see clearly in all directions. Troops tried to set up a lookout post inside a refugee camp. N-COUNT 2. A lookout is someone who is watching for danger in order to warn other people about it. N-COUNT 3. If someone keeps a lookout, especially on a boat, they look around all the time in order to make sure there is no danger. He denied that he’d failed to keep a proper lookout that night. PHRASE: V inflects ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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~ n 1 be on the lookout for to watch a place or situation continuously in order to find something you want or to be ready for problems or opportunities (Police were on the lookout for anyone behaving suspiciously. | We're always on the lookout for new business opportunities.) 2 keep a lookout to keep watching carefully for something or someone, especially for danger (keep a sharp/special lookout) (When you're driving keep a sharp lookout for cyclists.) 3 »PERSON« someone whose duty is to watch carefully for something, especially danger (A lookout reported an enemy plane approaching.) 4 »PLACE« a place for a lookout to watch from (a coastguard lookout on the clifftop) 5 it's your/their own lookout BrE spoken used to say that what someone has chosen to do is their own problem or risk, and no one else's (If he wants to ruin his health with all these drugs, that's his own lookout.) 6 be a poor/bad lookout for sb BrE spoken used to say that something bad or unsatisfactory is likely to happen (It'll be a poor lookout for James if she finds that letter.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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