Usually means: Temporary, conditional, subject to change.
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  1. provisory: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. provisory: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. provisory: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. provisory: Collins English Dictionary
  5. provisory: Vocabulary.com
  6. provisory: Wordnik
  7. provisory: Wiktionary
  8. provisory: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. provisory: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. provisory: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Provisory, provisory: Dictionary.com
  12. Provisory: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. provisory: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. provisory: Rhymezone
  15. Provisory: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. provisory: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. provisory: Free Dictionary
  18. provisory: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. provisory: Dictionary/thesaurus

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Definitions from Wiktionary (provisory)

▸ adjective:  Containing a proviso.
▸ adjective:  Dependent on a proviso or condition.
▸ adjective:  Temporary; pending something more permanent.
▸ noun:  (philately) Synonym of provisional

Similar:
conditional, provisionary, interlocutory, prolegomenary, prefatorial, prelusive, probatory, prolusory, prelusory, liminary, more...

Opposite:
definitive, final, conclusive, absolute

Types:
temporary, conditional, provisional, interim, contingent, limited, revocable, preliminary, more...

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Similar:
conditional, provisionary, interlocutory, prolegomenary, prefatorial, prelusive, probatory, prolusory, prelusory, liminary, more...

Opposite:
definitive, final, conclusive, absolute

Types:
temporary, conditional, provisional, interim, contingent, limited, revocable, preliminary, more...



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