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What does cautionary mean?

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Adjective
  1. Serving to caution or warn; admonitory
  2. Serving to ward off; preventive
  3. (obsolete) Held as security or hostage
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There may be valuable lessons, cautionary as well as exemplary, to be learned from the developments in the primary and community sectors.
While the futurology may be contentious, I believe there are considerable merits in the cautionary approach outlined in this book.
There is something of the cautionary tale to this piece, but it's done without an ounce of preachiness.
It's also a cautionary tale about how telling porkies on the Internet can land you in a whole heap of trouble.
A new cautionary diction, an uncustomary prudence inflected our way of talking to one another.
It probably is a cautionary tale for the rest of us who are in this end of the business.

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