All 6 Uses
provisional
in
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
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- After we decided that Mike should talk voice-to-voice to any comrade under some circumstances, it was necessary to give him more voices and dress him up, make him three dimensions, create "Adam Selene, Chairman of the Provisional Committee of Free Luna."†
Chpt 9 *
- With decorations trimmed away was assertion that Luna was de-facto a sovereign state, with an unopposed government in being, a civil condition of peace and order, a provisional president and cabinet carrying on necessary functions but anxious to return to private life as soon as Congress completed writing a constitution—and that we were here to ask that these facts be recognized de-jure and that Luna be allowed to take her rightful place in councils of mankind as a member of Federated Nations.†
Chpt 16
- Our "provisional president" was a computer, and "cabinet" was Wyoh, Finn, Comrade Clayton, and Terence Sheehan, editor of Pravda, plus Wolfgang Korsakov, board chairman of LuNoHoCo and a director of Bank of Hong Kong in Luna.†
Chpt 16
- He answered, "Isn't it true, Colonel, that your provisional government has asked for membership in Federated Nations?†
Chpt 18
- By dinnertime Luna had a government to replace co-opted provisional government—i.†
Chpt 21
- Congress confirmed all acts of provisional government, thus putting face on what we had done, thanked outgoing government for services and instructed Wolfgang's committee to continue work on permanent government structure.†
Chpt 21
Definitions:
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(1)
(provisional) temporary; or in effect while awaiting approval or a more permanent solution
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)