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yellow flag

noun

  1. Nautical. quarantine flag.


yellow flag

noun

  1. another name for quarantine flag
  2. See flag 3
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of yellow flag1

First recorded in 1775–85
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Example Sentences

It's a picture postcard settlement where the roads are good, the houses well-maintained and there are plenty of blue and yellow flags of the ruling Georgian Dream party.

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Several videos shared online show one white UN vehicle alight, as a group of young men, carrying yellow flags, chase and beat what appears to be peacekeepers as they attempt to flee.

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Rows of blue and yellow flags, marking the graves of fallen soldiers, pierce the sombre grey sky.

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Norris was penalised for ignoring yellow flags that were being waved for a piece of debris on the pit straight - a wing mirror that had come off Alex Albon's Williams.

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Drive past an intersection linking central Beirut to the Dahiyeh’s edge, where Hezbollah’s yellow flags start to appear on lampposts and the din of Israeli drones grows louder, and traffic rapidly melts away.

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