provisory

About 0.02 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Temporary; pending something more permanent.
2. adjective Containing a proviso or condition.

   The provisory clause effectively excluded his otherwise logical heirs from his main inheritance.

3. adjective Dependent on a proviso or condition.

   A provisory guarantee is rather like blackmail.

4. noun Synonym of provisional.

Similar words

conditional provisionary interlocutory prolegomenary prefatorial prelusive probatory prolusory prelusory liminary

Often followed by

government clause and executive solution character arrest code agreement