transitional
- adjective
- /trænˈzɪʃənl/
- During this transitional period, many people are adapting to new laws and regulations.
- a transitional period
- transitional housing
- a transitional government
Why do I, why do I bring this question of transitional justice framework?
- Why do I, why do I bring this question of transitional justice framework?
- It would have to involve a transitional government.
- I like these because they feel transitional from like the winter months to spring.
- Joe Biden has the audacity to say I'm a transitional president.
- And there's been, there's been an amazing transitional period that's happening right now as as we speak.
- And interestingly enough, they immediately appointed him president of the Transitional Governing Council in Iraq.
- Now we're going to see whether it can actually stay like that or whether this is a transitional moment, as I was saying earlier.
- Hair was that transitional point where you wondered whether it was being Co opted or not.
- But if we live in this truly transitional period, it last, it adds a lot of impetus to that idea, I think.
- Part of the process that I do is that I am lonely and attentive at those moments that are transitional.
- That's like a thing that I routinely address and criticize pre prior experiments in socialist, you know, transitional states.
Examples
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I like these because they feel transitional from like the winter months to spring.
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Devereux is a safe transitional house for girls who have been through a lot and are looking for a fresh start.
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Now we're going to see whether it can actually stay like that or whether this is a transitional moment, as I was saying earlier.
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So I got some fall clothing items, some like transitional things from summer to fall.
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Parents are required to hold a job at the time of entering the transitional housing program.
Academic text (2011) -
During this transitional period, $5 billion will be invested in health, education, and infrastructure.
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Lithuanians understood that there must be a transitional stage before real independence can be achieved.
Academic text (1990) -
Semtech Steel has frozen all pension payments during this transitional period.
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And interestingly enough, they immediately appointed him president of the Transitional Governing Council in Iraq.
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The country is experiencing a transitional phase as it shifts from a monarchy to a democracy.
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How Transitional
Surface Forms
Morphology
transitional = transition (transparent) = transition + al
Clear suffixation from transition + -al, with the adjective meaning directly expressing relation to change or transition.
Etymology
Transitional comes from the root trans- meaning 'across', the same idea you see in transit and transport, so imagine a bridge or a step between two places. That's why something transitional describes a period or state that is 'between' one thing and the next.