notify
verbUS /ˈnoʊtɪfaɪ/
Etymology From Middle English notifien, a borrowing from Old French notifier, notefiier.
1
To give (someone) notice (of some event).
- The dispatcher immediately notified the volunteer fire department of the emergency call.
- Once a decision has been reached and notified to the parties it becomes binding.
2
Obsolete To make (something) known.
3
Obsolete To make note of (something).
- Derived terms
- denotify, misnotify, notifiability, notifiable, prenotify, renotify, unnotified, unnotify
- Related terms
- notifier, notification, notifyee