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View synonyms for provisory

provisory

[ pruh-vahy-zuh-ree ]

adjective

  1. containing a proviso or condition; conditional.


provisory

/ prəˈvaɪzərɪ /

adjective

  1. containing a proviso; conditional
  2. another word for provisional
  3. making provision
“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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Derived Forms

  • proˈvisorily, adverb
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Other Words From

  • pro·viso·ri·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of provisory1

1605–15; < Medieval Latin prōvīsōrius, equivalent to Latin prōvid-, stem of prōvidēre to provide + -tōrius -tory 1, with dt > s
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Example Sentences

My feelings of safety and belonging are still highly provisory.

Dickinson’s dashes are ubiquitous in all but the earliest editions of her poems, but fewer editions reproduce her plus signs, which mark an unfinished or provisory line, later to be filled in.

In the meantime Louis XVI. wrote to the Pope beseeching him to approve, at least provisorily, of the first five articles to which he was in a manner forced to give his sanction.

Zinc plates are also employed as provisory supports instead of glass, opal or porcelain plates.

If yet in time—ay, such provisory parenthesis was in my mind at the moment.

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