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Provisional Definition


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Provisional
adj
    1. Belonging or relating to the breakaway wing of the Official IRA which advocates terrorism as the way to bring about Irish unity.
noun
    1. A member of the Provisional IRA. See also Provo.



provisional
adj
    1. Temporary; for the time being or immediate purposes only; liable to be altered.
      Thesaurus: temporary, transitional, interim, stopgap, limited, tentative, conditional, contingent, pro tem, provisory, qualified; Antonym: definite, fixed, permanent.
Derivative: provisionally
adverb
    Temporarily; for the time being or immediate purposes only
      Thesaurus: for the time being, meanwhile, interim, pro tempore, pro tem.


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