Definition of Provisional

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Definition of Provisional
	Provisional Of the nature of a provision; serving as a provision for the time being; -- used of partial or temporary arrangements; as, a provisional government; a provisional treaty. Related Definitions: As, Being, For, Government, Nature, Of, Or, Partial, Provision, Provisional, Serving, Temporary, The, Time, Treaty, Used

Provisional Quotations

In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
Stephen Jay Gould

In this context, social consensus, and institutions that embody this consensus, must be made effective in order for democratization not to be abused as a provisional instrument to establish an anti-democratic regime.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan

I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.
A. R. Ammons

In the Steven F. Austin Colony, which was the first colony, Texans first established a provisional government in 1835 with the intention of writing a declaration of independence soon after.
Michael McCaul

For me, this world of questions and the provisional, this chase after an answer that was always put off to the next day, all that was euphoric. I lived in the future.
Francois Jacob

We wait here to meet the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam to discuss together a ceremony of orderly transfer of power so as to avoid any unnecessary bloodshed in the population.
Duong Van Minh

My Irish passport makes me look like a chief of staff for the Provisional IRA.
Jack Higgins

Provisional Translations

provisional in Afrikaans is tydelik
provisional in Dutch is tijdelijk, voorlopig
provisional in French is provisoire
provisional in German is provisorisch
provisional in Spanish is provisional
provisional in Swedish is provisorisk

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