PROVISIONAL meaning: Temporary, pending final confirmation or decision

We found 33 dictionaries that define the word provisional:

General (24 matching dictionaries)

provisional: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
provisional: Merriam-Webster
Provisional, provisional: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
provisional: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
provisional: Collins English Dictionary
provisional: Vocabulary.com
Provisional, provisional: Wordnik
provisional: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Provisional, provisional: Wiktionary
provisional: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
provisional: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
provisional: Infoplease Dictionary
provisional: Dictionary.com
provisional: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Provisional: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
provisional: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
provisional: Rhymezone
Provisional: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
provisional: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
provisional: FreeDictionary.org
provisional: Mnemonic Dictionary
provisional: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (5 matching dictionaries)

provisional: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
PROVISIONAL: Accounting Glossary
Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
provisional: Legal dictionary
BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

provisional: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)

online medical dictionary (No longer online)
provisional: Medical dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)

Cat Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ adjective:  Temporary, but with the intention of eventually becoming permanent or being replaced by a permanent equivalent.
▸ noun:  (philately) A postage stamp issued locally before an official issue is released.
▸ noun:  (dentistry) An interim denture.
▸ noun:  a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army

Opposite:

permanent, definite, fixed, established, conclusive

Phrases:

provisional ira, provisional order, provisional remedies, provisional remedy, provisional income, more...

Adjectives:

new, first, fateh, called, poor, some, non, anti

Colors:

gray, beige, light gray, pale yellow, soft blue, more...

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