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provisional
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  • Not all provisional ballots will be counted.
  • The committee approved a provisional budget while waiting for final numbers.
    provisional = temporary or not final
  • hired under a provisional contract†
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  • But sometimes other arrangements can be made if we get provisional approval, especially in a situation like yours.†  (source)
  • Each time I put a foot out I set it down provisionally, as if the floor might give way underneath me.†  (source)
  • Provisional.†  (source)
  • He believed it provisionally here in this room located below street level in a frame house on a weekday afternoon in Cliffside Park, New Jersey.†  (source)
  • No interim period for—I don't know—a provisional government-in-training?†  (source)
  • By the way, Jarvis, we arranged the funeral provisionally for tomorrow afternoon, after a service in the Parkwold Church.†  (source)
  • I'm not sure if it was for Tommy's benefit, or for any onlookers', but I'd kept my posture looking very provisional, and at one point made a move to carry on with my stroll.†  (source)
  • This note is made provisionally, in order to explain in part why it is now so difficult to give any clear description of her.†  (source)
  • As soon as something like a provisional programme had been hastily cobbled together important announcements would come in, either from the front or of a diplomatic nature.†  (source)
  • Provisionally at least, your guilt is seen as proven.†  (source)
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