without prior notice

idiom

: without having told the people involved

The contract was canceled without prior notice.

Examples of without prior notice in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

He was taken in the middle of the night from the public section of a prison without prior notice, despite the Revolutionary Court advising that he be referred to the Commission on Pardons and Commutations for his death sentence to be commuted to life imprisonment. —Nilo Tabrizy, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2024

Then in June 2023, he was once again admitted, without prior notice by the Vatican, for abdominal surgery to remove internal scar tissue. —Claudio Lavanga, NBC News, 31 Mar. 2024

Scores of virulent riot police have shown up to evict them without prior notice. —Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 29 Jan. 2024

Gutierrez Reed’s lawyer, Jason Bowles, said the new charge came without prior notice or evidence to support it. —Gene Maddaus, Variety, 22 June 2023

But in December, a federal judge ordered the city to stop enforcing camping and sleeping bans against unsheltered people as long as there are not enough shelter beds available and to stop seizing unsheltered people’s belongings without prior notice. —Juliette Rihl, The Arizona Republic, 6 Apr. 2023

In 2015 alone, at least five executives became unreachable without prior notice to their companies, including Fosun Group Chairman Guo Guangchang, who Fosun later said was assisting with investigations regarding a personal matter. —Reuters, NBC News, 27 Feb. 2023

Last week, Union Pacific reached an agreement with two of its smaller unions granting their members up to four sick days a year, as well as greater flexibility to use three personal days as sick days without prior notice and approval. —Chris Isidore, CNN, 27 Feb. 2023

Ahead of the meeting, there was concern that a vote would be taken to change party bylaws to combine diversity caucuses into a single Ethnic Minority Committee without prior notice for many members. —al, 21 Jan. 2023