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PROVISO (provisoes)

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does proviso mean? 

PROVISO (noun)
  The noun PROVISO has 1 sense:

1. a stipulated conditionplay

  Familiarity information: PROVISO used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PROVISO (noun)


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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