provisional

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[ UK /pɹəvˈɪʒənə‍l/ ]
[ US /pɹəˈvɪʒənəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon
    probationary employees
    just a tentative schedule
    a provisional government
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How To Use provisional In A Sentence

  • Blunders made by the Coalition Provisional Authority -- disbanding the Iraqi army, dissolving the Baath party, failing to stop the lotting -- are not the main problem. Jonathan Steele: Why the Democrats Should Use the "Defeat" Word
  • The bold provisionality and elegant openness of Merz's installations, as well as his own freewheeling personal presence and oracular writings, helped make him the most widely recognized of all the Arte Povera artists.
  • The internal debate within the Provisional movement has encountered some difficulties.
  • I was in negotiations with those who would know the leadership of the Provisional movement.
  • We accept provisional bookings by phone.
  • And I just visited an outpost, what we call a provisional reconstruction team in Zabul Province, where this fighting is going on. CNN Transcript Jun 18, 2006
  • Under the provisional plans, the wall separating the bar and the snug would be knocked down.
  • House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-MA) will chair the conference committee charged with "harmonizing" the House and Senate bills and has provisionally named conferees, largely on the basis of seniority. Lawrence G. McDonald: Will The Next Three Weeks Change Wall Street Forever?
  • If the fee is acceptable to WD King then I hope that your commitments permit our provisional meeting in Bath next Monday to go ahead.
  • It was a kind of empire built on very provisional and tentative things that might happen.
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