Word Meanings - PROVISO - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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;
Additional info about word: PROVISO
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. He doth deny his prisoners, But with proviso and exception. Shak.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PROVISO)
- Condition
- State
- case
- mood
- term
- mode
- qualification
- requisite
- stipulation
- predicament
- proviso
- situation
- circumstances
- plight
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PROVISO)
Related words: (words related to PROVISO)
- STATESMANLIKE
Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman. - IMPLY
1. To infold or involve; to wrap up. "His head in curls implied." Chapman. 2. To involve in substance or essence, or by fair inference, or by construction of law, when not include virtually; as, war implies fighting. Where a mulicious act is - CONTRADICTABLE
Capable of being contradicting. - STATEHOOD
The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood. - QUALIFICATION
1. The act of qualifying, or the condition of being qualified. 2. That which qualifies; any natural endowment, or any acquirement, which fits a person for a place, office, or employment, or which enables him to sustian any character with success; - RETRACTOR
One who, or that which, retracts. Specifically: In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel. - CONTRADICTIVE
Contradictory; inconsistent. -- Con`tra*dict"ive*ly, adv.. - SUPPRESSOR
One who suppresses. - CONDITIONALITY
The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms. - STIPULATION
A material article of an agreement; an undertaking in the nature of bail taken in the admiralty courts; a bargain. Bouvier. Wharton. Syn. -- Agreement; contract; engagement. See Covenant. (more info) 1. The act of stipulating; a contracting or - REPRESSIBLE
Capable of being repressed. - PROVISORILY
In a provisory manner; conditionally; subject to a proviso; as, to admit a doctrine provisorily. Sir W. Hamilton. - CONDITIONAL
Expressing a condition or supposition; as, a conditional word, mode, or tense. A conditional proposition is one which asserts the dependence of one categorical proposition on another. Whately. The words hypothetical and conditional may be . . . - STATE SOCIALISM
A form of socialism, esp. advocated in Germany, which, while retaining the right of private property and the institution of the family and other features of the present form of the state, would intervene by various measures intended to - PREDICAMENTAL
Of or pertaining to a predicament. John Hall . - CONTRADICTORILY
In a contradictory manner. Sharp. - CONTRADICTION
1. An assertion of the contrary to what has been said or affirmed; denial of the truth of a statement or assertion; contrary declaration; gainsaying. His fair demands Shall be accomplished without contradiction. Shak. 2. Direct opposition - PROVISORSHIP
The office or position of a provisor. J. Webster. - STATECRAFT
The art of conducting state affairs; state management; statesmanship. - STATESWOMAN
A woman concerned in public affairs. A rare stateswoman; I admire her bearing. B. Jonson. - PREREQUISITE
Previously required; necessary as a preliminary to any proposed effect or end; as, prerequisite conditions of success. - CREBRICOSTATE
Marked with closely set ribs or ridges. - SAGEBRUSH STATE
Nevada; -- a nickname. - OLD LINE STATE
Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line. - ENSTATE
See INSTATE - KATASTATE
A substance formed by a katabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See Katabolic. - BAYOU STATE
Mississippi; -- a nickname, from its numerous bayous. - REESTATE
To reëstablish. Walis. - BLACKWATER STATE
Nebraska; -- a nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the presence of a black vegetable mold in the soil. - ARISTATE
Having a pointed, beardlike process, as the glumes of wheat; awned. Gray. - BICOSTATE
Having two principal ribs running longitudinally, as a leaf. - TRIPLICOSTATE
Three-ribbed.