notice

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SIT UP AND TAKE NOTICE,

TAKE NOTE OF or TAKE NOTICE OF.

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[take note of] or [take notice of] {v. phr.} 1. To look carefully at; pay close attention to; observe well. * /A detective is trained to take note of people […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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[sit up and take notice] {v. phr.}, {informal} To be surprised into noticing something. * /Grace had never impressed her teachers. Hearing that she had won the essay contest made […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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[give notice] {v. phr.} To inform an employer, an employee, a landlord, or a tenant of the termination of a contractual agreement of service or tenancy. * /Max gave notice […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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[serve notice] {v. phr.} 1. To notify one's employer in a formal or legal manner that one is quitting the former's employment. * /She gave notice to her boss that […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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