Proviso
[prə'vaɪzəʊ] or [prə'vaɪzo]
Definition
(n.) 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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Condition, provision, clause, conditional stipulation.
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Definition
n. a provision or condition in a deed or other writing: the clause containing it: any condition:—pl. Provisos (prō-vī′zōz).—adv. Provī′sorily.—adj. Provī′sory containing a proviso or condition: conditional: making provision for the time: temporary.
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Examples
- The only proviso that Justinian made was that the women, on their arrival, should keep out of musket-shot and not risk their lives. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Jerry added, by way of proviso. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- But socialism has never gone on to a thorough examination of that proviso for efficient administration. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Always with the proviso that Podsnap will rally round him, Veneering thinks it is so. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- This proviso might have sounded rather satirically in Will's ear if he had been in a mood to care about such satire. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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