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PROVISO (provisoes)
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Irregular inflected form: provisoes
Dictionary entry overview: What does proviso mean?
• PROVISO (noun)
The noun PROVISO has 1 sense:
1. a stipulated condition
Familiarity information: PROVISO used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A stipulated condition
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
provision; proviso
Context example:
he accepted subject to one provision
Hypernyms ("proviso" is a kind of...):
condition; precondition; stipulation (an assumption on which rests the validity or effect of something else)
Context examples
This was readily agreed to, with only a proviso of Miss Tilney's, that it did not rain, which Catherine was sure it would not.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
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