QUI VIVE


Meaning of QUI VIVE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ kē-ˈvēv ]

noun

Etymology: French qui-vive, from qui vive? long live who?, challenge of a French sentry

Date: 1726

: alert , lookout — used in the phrase on the qui vive

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.