provisional
55
6.1
- adjective
- /prəˈvɪʒənl/
:
provisional
- The committee made a provisional decision to hold the festival, pending further reviews.
- a provisional government
- on a provisional basis
- a provisional arrangement
So in those circumstances, we all have a provisional sense of self.
- So in those circumstances, we all have a provisional sense of self.
- Well, my question is, I have a upcoming provisional patent on a warehouse product.
- And now you are bamboozled from your true self into this provisional identity.
- And so it creates this other turning point, a kind of a kind of provisional healing.
- And this doubt cannot avail itself, as he's going to say, of any provisional ethic.
- The French, British, local churches, Muslim councils, and the new Arab LED provisional government in Damascus all worked to bring in and distribute supplies.
- Well, the CPA at the time, the Coalition Provisional Authority, so State Department, but it was the CPA, all those contracts that they had everywhere.
- Shrinking so you it's harder to live in this provisional options open way.
- We're about to emerge from dream in route, provisional fugitive searching, forming than reforming.
- I said it's a temporary acting provisional, interim orchestrator of coalition activities.
- So your provisional story is projecting as your mental body and your and your physical body and your experience of the world.
Examples
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What is the basic political unity in this provisional government, if there is one?
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Few are as painfully aware as Chilean political leaders of the provisional character of democracy.
Academic text (1992) -
I will issue a provisional command.
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Order of the Provisional Government.
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So he said the provisional government idea is not a good idea.
Academic text (2013) -
You were from the beginning a provisional government... not truly representative of the people.
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Yet, these measures are provisional and in need of "more objective assessment."
Academic text (2013) -
The provisional government, first... ...will free all political prisoners, civilian and military.
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It says here his parole is provisional.
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U. S. officials have asked Hong Kong to detain the former contractor on a provisional arrest warrant.
Synonyms
325
5.2
Happening before a main event to prepare for it
113
5.0
For a short time until a permanent solution or person is found
57
5.1
Made or said without being fully certain, often as a trial
14
7.3
About a short test period before someone gets a permanent job
1
7.5
Temporary and not final while waiting for approval
Temporary and only true if a condition is met
A temporary version used until the final one is made
Antonyms
Compounds
- NSFW
An armed Irish group that used violence to fight British troops in Northern Ireland and unite Ireland
An armed Irish group that used violence to end British rule in Northern Ireland
How Temporary
17
8.6
225
3.3
557
3.0
55
6.1
502
3.0
650
3.2
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word provisional comes from the same root as provide and provision, with pro- meaning 'before' and the rest meaning 'to see' or 'prepare'. So a provisional decision is one made 'before' the final one, meaning it is arranged for now and may change later.