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Princeton's WordNet

  1. red flagnoun

    a flag that serves as a warning signal

    "we didn't swim at the beach because the red flag was up"

  2. red flagnoun

    the emblem of socialist revolution

  3. red flagnoun

    something that irritates or demands immediate action

    "doing that is like waving a red flag in front of a bull"

Wiktionary

  1. red flagnoun

    A cue, warning, or alert; a sign or signal that something is wrong.

Wikipedia

  1. RED FLAG

    Exercise Red Flag (also Red Flag – Nellis) is a two-week advanced aerial combat training exercise held several times a year by the United States Air Force. It aims to offer realistic air-combat training for military pilots and other flight crew members from the United States and allied countries. Each year, three to six Red Flag exercises are held at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, while up to four more, dubbed Red Flag – Alaska, are held at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska. First held on 29 November 1975, Red Flag exercises bring together aircrews from the United States Air Force (USAF), United States Navy (USN), United States Marine Corps (USMC), United States Army (USA) and numerous NATO and allied nations' air forces. Red Flag exercises are conducted under the control of the United States Air Force Warfare Center (USAFWC) at Nellis. They are run by the 414th Combat Training Squadron (414 CTS) of the 57th Wing (57 WG). They use "enemy" hardware and live ammunition for bombing exercises within the adjacent Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR).

ChatGPT

  1. red flag

    A red flag is a warning sign or an indication of a potential problem, danger, or irregularity that demands attention or provokes an appropriate intervention. It typically suggests that something negative might happen or is currently happening that requires a prompt or preventative action.

Wikidata

  1. Red flag

    In politics, a red flag is a symbol of Socialism, or Communism, or sometimes left-wing politics in general. It has been associated with left-wing politics since the French Revolution. Socialists adopted the symbol during the Revolutions of 1848 and it became a symbol of communism as a result of its use by the Paris Commune of 1871. The flags of several communist states, including China, Vietnam and the Soviet Union, are explicitly based on the original red flag. The red flag is also used as a symbol by some democratic socialists and social democrats, for example the Avami National Party, French Socialist Party and the Social Democratic Party of Germany. The Labour Party in Britain used it until the late 1980s. It was the inspiration for the socialist anthem, The Red Flag.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. red flag

    Is frequently used by revolutionists as an emblem of defiance. It is used in the U. S. service as a danger-signal at target practice, and on a man-of-war as a signal that the ship is receiving or discharging her powder.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of red flag in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of red flag in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of red flag in a Sentence

  1. Anna Bray:

    If you don't feel like the inroads or the transparency or communication and connection with your boss is there to have a fruitful conversation, that can be a red flag.

  2. Du Preez:

    That was a red flag.

  3. Beto ORourkes:

    This is a country that has produced the leadership that will ensure that we not only have universal background checks and red flag laws and end the sale of those weapons of war but that we go the necessary steps further, as politically difficult as they may be, a gun registry in this country [and] licensing for every American who owns a firearm.And every single one of those AR-15s and AK-47s will be bought back so theyre not on our streets, not in our homes, and do not take the lives of our fellow Americans.

  4. Raj Dasgupta:

    The O stands for observed apnea, and that's actually worse than just snoring, an apnea means no flow of air -- no air coming in no air going out. You're not breathing. Observed apnea is really a red flag.

  5. Dudley Brown:

    Colorado Republican Sen. Cory Gardner has voiced directly to me and to one of the more prominent sheriffs in the state directly that Colorado Republican Sen. Cory Gardner is opposed to red flag laws and thinks they're unconstitutional.


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