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Definition of provisional in English: provisionaladjective prəˈvɪʒ(ə)n(ə)lprəˈvɪʒənl 1Arranged or existing for the present, possibly to be changed later. Example sentencesExamples - Lots of top-notch breweries are set to be represented (although the beer list is provisional and subject to change).
- Its findings are never true in an absolute now-and-forever sense; they are always provisional and can always be improved.
- We have now made provisional bookings so we need names and deposits immediately to secure accommodation.
- This explanation should be regarded as provisional at present, but it does suggest several important directions for future work.
- ‘Work is ongoing in processing these cases, with a view to issuing provisional entitlement statements as soon as possible’, she said.
- In general practice in the United Kingdom, it is possible to make provisional decisions with patients and to review them.
- Preliminary and provisional findings are presented, sometimes before peer review and without appropriate caveats, as proof of links between lethal diseases and familiar products or activities.
- 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.
- A spokesman for Bradford Council said a provisional arrangement had been made but it was never confirmed, so no-one attended.
- Statehood, even if qualified as provisional or interim, confers a degree of sovereignty.
- That report contains provisional proposals for the construction of major flood alleviation works within the Edgware Brook and Silk Stream catchments.
- While my research into these matters is not yet complete, I would like to present my provisional conclusions.
- Where uncertainty or dispute exists and it is necessary for a some factual determination to be made in order to comply with the brief, only tentative or provisional views will be expressed.
- Much of the uncertainty surrounds the dizzying number of ways of qualifying for a provisional ballot, a sort of emergency ballot that allows voters to cast a vote at the polls, then have their eligibility checked after the election.
- In the meantime, the provisional festival programme has thrown up some intriguing possibilities for a couple of good nights on the town.
- ‘There is nothing unusual about changes to provisional star-rating status prior to publication,’ he told MPs.
- Blackwell ruled that persons who had requested, but not received their absentee ballots, would not be permitted to cast a provisional ballot.
- It was a kind of empire built on very provisional and tentative things that might happen.
- Workers established dual power, whereby there were workers' councils on the one hand and a provisional government using the existing state institutions on the other.
- A provisional date of has been pencilled in for the York and District Cup final between Selby Warriors and York Groves.
Synonyms interim, temporary, pro tem - 1.1British (of a driving licence) to be obtained before starting to learn to drive and upgraded to a full licence on passing a driving test.
Norman as yet had only a provisional licence Example sentencesExamples - Her lawyer claimed that she had 30 driving lessons in the past, but had never passed her test and failed to renew her provisional driving licence after moving house.
- Obviously, in order to enable a person who has been disqualified to pass a test, he would have to be able to drive and obtain a provisional licence to do so.
- He also admitted to driving with faulty brakes and steering, and to driving illegally with a provisional licence, which he got following a previous disqualification.
- Six drivers received fixed penalty tickets for offences ranging from driving unaccompanied on a provisional licence to driving while using a mobile phone.
- The court also heard that on April 2 this year, although she only has a provisional driving licence, she drove unaccompanied along the M4.
- 1.2 (of a postage stamp) put into circulation temporarily, usually owing to the unavailability of the definitive issue.
Example sentencesExamples - Provisional stamps are usually made by overprinting, surcharging and occasionally by bisecting pre-existing stamps.
- Some of the most coveted United States postage stamps are the crude provisional stamps used by early postmasters from 1845 to 1846 before the Stamp Act was legislated.
2Denoting the unofficial wings of the IRA and Sinn Fein established in 1969 and advocating terrorism. Example sentencesExamples - Police have linked the Provisional IRA to a large cache of arms recovered in Belfast over the weekend.
- Even though the shooting took place in the staunchly republican west Belfast, security sources immediately ruled out any Provisional IRA involvement.
- The Official IRA declared a ceasefire in the summer of 1972, and subsequently the term IRA has been used for the organisation that had developed from the 'Provisional' IRA.
- Claimed to be a blow at ‘the colonial economic structure’ and the British ruling class, this Provisional bomb killed six people, most of them members of the crew of a bin-lorry.
noun prəˈvɪʒ(ə)n(ə)lprəˈvɪʒənl 1A provisional stamp. Example sentencesExamples - Dr. Maffeo was able to assemble a remarkable number of rare Postmaster's Provisionals, both United States and Confederate as well as two Inverted Jennys.
- The New Orleans 5c Provisionals are the most common of the CSA provisional stamps and the ones most likely to be acquired by the average collector.
2A member of the Provisional wings of the IRA or Sinn Fein. Example sentencesExamples - The Officials were pulled into violence in the north, though were consistently less aggressive than the Provisionals.
- When the Provisionals broke away from Official Sinn Féin / IRA in the early days of the Troubles they had little or no interest in politics.
- It is not clear that the men arrested in Colombia, at least two of whom are convicted IRA bomb-makers, represent the Provisionals or, for that matter, the Real IRA.
- The Provisionals were not ‘terrorists’, in that they were predominantly waging a campaign focused on British occupation forces.
- Separately, Special Branch detectives said this weekend that Garda surveillance had resumed on alleged members of the Provisionals in Dublin, including people associated with Sinn Féin.
Derivatives nounprəvɪʒ(ə)ˈnalɪti Hugo saw everything he wrote as an experiment, and was, more than any other great poet of his century, aware of the provisionality of every position, every thought, every work of art. Example sentencesExamples - Should feminism use an image of an essential ‘woman’ or admit the provisionality of gender identity?
- In everything they said, there was this air of acceptance, and tentatively, experimentation rather than celebration, of a resolve towards provisionality rather than finality.
- Inner conviction and objective reason are both needed and have to be combined in such a way as to overcome the provisionality of reason and the subjectivism of inner feeling.
- Postmodernism, in contrast, doesn't lament the idea of fragmentation, provisionality, or incoherence, but rather celebrates that.
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Definition of provisional in US English: provisionaladjectiveprəˈvɪʒənlprəˈviZHənl 1Arranged or existing for the present, possibly to be changed later. a provisional construction permit Example sentencesExamples - While my research into these matters is not yet complete, I would like to present my provisional conclusions.
- It was a kind of empire built on very provisional and tentative things that might happen.
- Statehood, even if qualified as provisional or interim, confers a degree of sovereignty.
- Blackwell ruled that persons who had requested, but not received their absentee ballots, would not be permitted to cast a provisional ballot.
- Much of the uncertainty surrounds the dizzying number of ways of qualifying for a provisional ballot, a sort of emergency ballot that allows voters to cast a vote at the polls, then have their eligibility checked after the election.
- Workers established dual power, whereby there were workers' councils on the one hand and a provisional government using the existing state institutions on the other.
- We have now made provisional bookings so we need names and deposits immediately to secure accommodation.
- ‘There is nothing unusual about changes to provisional star-rating status prior to publication,’ he told MPs.
- Its findings are never true in an absolute now-and-forever sense; they are always provisional and can always be improved.
- 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.
- A spokesman for Bradford Council said a provisional arrangement had been made but it was never confirmed, so no-one attended.
- A provisional date of has been pencilled in for the York and District Cup final between Selby Warriors and York Groves.
- Where uncertainty or dispute exists and it is necessary for a some factual determination to be made in order to comply with the brief, only tentative or provisional views will be expressed.
- In the meantime, the provisional festival programme has thrown up some intriguing possibilities for a couple of good nights on the town.
- Preliminary and provisional findings are presented, sometimes before peer review and without appropriate caveats, as proof of links between lethal diseases and familiar products or activities.
- Lots of top-notch breweries are set to be represented (although the beer list is provisional and subject to change).
- In general practice in the United Kingdom, it is possible to make provisional decisions with patients and to review them.
- This explanation should be regarded as provisional at present, but it does suggest several important directions for future work.
- ‘Work is ongoing in processing these cases, with a view to issuing provisional entitlement statements as soon as possible’, she said.
- That report contains provisional proposals for the construction of major flood alleviation works within the Edgware Brook and Silk Stream catchments.
Synonyms interim, temporary, pro tem - 1.1 (of a postage stamp) put into circulation temporarily, usually owing to the unavailability of the definitive issue.
Example sentencesExamples - Some of the most coveted United States postage stamps are the crude provisional stamps used by early postmasters from 1845 to 1846 before the Stamp Act was legislated.
- Provisional stamps are usually made by overprinting, surcharging and occasionally by bisecting pre-existing stamps.
2attributive Relating to the unofficial wings of the Irish Republican Army and Sinn Fein established in 1969 and advocating terrorism. Example sentencesExamples - The Official IRA declared a ceasefire in the summer of 1972, and subsequently the term IRA has been used for the organisation that had developed from the 'Provisional' IRA.
- Claimed to be a blow at ‘the colonial economic structure’ and the British ruling class, this Provisional bomb killed six people, most of them members of the crew of a bin-lorry.
- Police have linked the Provisional IRA to a large cache of arms recovered in Belfast over the weekend.
- Even though the shooting took place in the staunchly republican west Belfast, security sources immediately ruled out any Provisional IRA involvement.
nounprəˈvɪʒənlprəˈviZHənl 1A provisional postage stamp. Example sentencesExamples - Dr. Maffeo was able to assemble a remarkable number of rare Postmaster's Provisionals, both United States and Confederate as well as two Inverted Jennys.
- The New Orleans 5c Provisionals are the most common of the CSA provisional stamps and the ones most likely to be acquired by the average collector.
2A member of the Provisional wings of the Irish Republican Army or Sinn Fein. Example sentencesExamples - The Provisionals were not ‘terrorists’, in that they were predominantly waging a campaign focused on British occupation forces.
- The Officials were pulled into violence in the north, though were consistently less aggressive than the Provisionals.
- It is not clear that the men arrested in Colombia, at least two of whom are convicted IRA bomb-makers, represent the Provisionals or, for that matter, the Real IRA.
- Separately, Special Branch detectives said this weekend that Garda surveillance had resumed on alleged members of the Provisionals in Dublin, including people associated with Sinn Féin.
- When the Provisionals broke away from Official Sinn Féin / IRA in the early days of the Troubles they had little or no interest in politics.
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