provisory

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: pro=vi=so=ry

CIDE DICTIONARY

provisory, a. [Cf. F. provisoire.].

•  Of the nature of a proviso; containing a proviso or condition; conditional; as, a provisory clause.  [1913 Webster]
•  Making temporary provision; provisional.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

provisory, adj.
1 conditional; having a proviso.
2 making provision (provisory care).

Derivative

provisorily adv.

Etymology

F provisoire or med.L provisorius (as PROVISOR)

ROGET THESAURUS

provisory

Transientness

N transience, transientness, evanescence, impermanence, fugacity, caducity, mortality, span, nine days' wonder, bubble, Mayfly, spurt, flash in the pan, temporary arrangement, interregnum, velocity, suddenness, changeableness, transient, transient boarder, transient guest, transient, transitory, transitive, passing, evanescent, fleeting, cursory, short-lived, ephemeral, flying, fugacious, fugitive, shifting, slippery, spasmodic, instantaneous, momentaneous, temporal, temporary, provisional, provisory, deciduous, perishable, mortal, precarious, unstable, insecure, impermanent, brief, quick, brisk, extemporaneous, summary, pressed for time, sudden, momentary, temporarily, pro tempore, for the moment, for a time, awhile, en passant, in transitu, in a short time, soon, briefly, at short notice, on the point of, on the eve of, in articulo, between cup and lip, one's days are numbered, the time is up, here today and gone tomorrow, non semper erit aestas, eheu! fugaces labuntur anni, sic transit gloria mundi, a schoolboy's tale, the wonder of the hour!, dum loquimur fugerit invidia aetas, fugit hora, all that is transitory is but an illusion.