proviso

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: pro=vi=so

CIDE DICTIONARY

proviso, n. [L., (it) being provided, abl. of provisus, p. p. of providere. See Provide, and cf. Purview.].

 An article or clause in any statute, agreement, contract, grant, or other writing, by which a condition is introduced, usually beginning with the word provided; a conditional stipulation that affects an agreement, contract, law, grant, or the like; as, the contract was impaired by its proviso.  [1913 Webster]
"He doth deny his prisoners,
But with proviso and exception."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

proviso, n. (pl. -os)
1 a stipulation.
2 a clause of stipulation or limitation in a document.

Etymology

L, neut. ablat. past part. of providere PROVIDE, in med.L phr. proviso quod it being provided that

THESAURUS

proviso

bill, boundary condition, calendar, catch, clause, companion bills amendment, condition, donnee, dragnet clause, enacting clause, escalator clause, escape clause, escape hatch, exception, fine print, given, grounds, hold-up bill, joker, kicker, limiting condition, motion, obligation, omnibus bill, parameter, prerequisite, privileged question, provision, provisions, qualification, question, requisite, reservation, rider, saving clause, sine qua non, small print, specification, stipulation, string, strings, term, terms, ultimatum, whereas

ROGET THESAURUS

proviso

Conditions

N conditions, terms, articles, articles of agreement, memorandum, clauses, provisions, proviso, covenant, stipulation, obligation, ultimatum, sine qua non, casus foederris, conditional, provisional, guarded, fenced, hedged in, conditionally, provisionally, pro re nata, on condition, with a string to it.

Qualification

N qualification, limitation, modification, coloring, allowance, grains of allowance, consideration, extenuating circumstances, mitigation, condition, proviso, prerequisite, contingency, stipulation, provision, specification, sine qua non, catch, string, strings attached, exemption, exception, escape clause, salvo, saving clause, discount, restriction, fine print, qualifying, qualified, conditioned, restricted, hedged, conditional, exceptional, hypothetical, contingent, provided, provided that, provided always, if, unless, but, yet, according as, conditionally, admitting, supposing, on the supposition of, with the understanding, even, although, though, for all that, after all, at all events, approximately, in a limited degree (smallness), somewhat, sort of, something like that, to a certain extent, to a degree, in a sense, so to speak, with grains of allowance, cum grano salis, with a grain of salt, exceptis excipiendis, wind and weather permitting, if possible, subject to, conditioned upon, with this proviso, if the good lord is willing and the creeks don't r, catch-, Degrees of Evidence.