Provisional

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Provisional \Pro*vi"sion*al\, a. [Cf. F. provisionnel.]
     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.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  provisional
       adj : under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon;
             "probationary employees"; "a provisional government";
             "just a tentative schedule" [syn: {probationary}, {provisionary},
              {tentative}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  112 Moby Thesaurus words for "provisional":
     accidental, ad hoc, adventitious, aleatory, alternate, alternative,
     backup, band-aid, casual, circumstantial, conditional, contingent,
     counterfeit, cut-and-try, dangerous, dependent, desultory, dummy,
     empirical, equivalent, ersatz, experimental, fake, fixed,
     forehanded, foreseeing, foresighted, forethoughted, forethoughtful,
     given, hazardous, heuristic, hit-or-miss, imitation,
     improvisational, improvised, incidental, inessential, infirm,
     insecure, insubstantial, interim, jury-rigged, makeshift,
     makeshifty, mock, nonessential, occasional, perilous, phony, pilot,
     pinch, precarious, precautional, precautionary, precautious,
     preparative, preparatory, prerequisite, pro tem, probationary,
     probative, probatory, propaedeutic, provident, proving, provisory,
     proxy, qualified, reserve, risky, rough-and-ready,
     rough-and-tumble, secondary, shaky, shifting, shifty, slippery,
     spare, specificative, specified, stated, stipulated, stipulatory,
     stopgap, substitute, temporary, tentative, test, testing, ticklish,
     token, transitional, treacherous, trial, trial-and-error, trying,
     undependable, unessential, unfaithworthy, unreliable, unsolid,
     unsound, unstable, unsteadfast, unsteady, unsubstantial, unsure,
     untrustworthy, utility, verificatory, vicarious