Usually means: Condition attached to an agreement.
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  1. proviso: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. proviso: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. proviso: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. proviso: Collins English Dictionary
  5. proviso: Vocabulary.com
  6. Proviso, proviso: Wordnik
  7. proviso: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. proviso: Wiktionary
  9. proviso: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. proviso: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. proviso: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. proviso: Dictionary.com
  13. proviso: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Proviso: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Proviso: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. proviso: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. proviso: Rhymezone
  18. proviso: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. proviso: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. proviso: Free Dictionary
  21. proviso: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. proviso: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
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  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. proviso: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. proviso: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  8. proviso: Legal dictionary
  9. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

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  1. proviso: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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▸ noun:  A conditional provision to an agreement.
▸ noun:  A township in Cook County, Illinois, United States.

Similar:
provision, condition precedent, provn., suspensive condition, provisorship, premise, protasis, prerequisite, precondition, presupposition, more...

Opposite:
unconditional, absolute, unrestricted, unqualified

Types:
condition, prerequisite, limitation, restriction, stipulation, more...

Phrases:
Wilmot Proviso, wilmont proviso, Lockean proviso, Proviso East High School, more...

Adjectives:
important, second, first, last, only, same, such, usual, further, lockean, special
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Similar:
provision, condition precedent, provn., suspensive condition, provisorship, premise, protasis, prerequisite, precondition, presupposition, more...

Opposite:
unconditional, absolute, unrestricted, unqualified

Types:
condition, prerequisite, limitation, restriction, stipulation, more...

Phrases:
Wilmot Proviso, wilmont proviso, Lockean proviso, Proviso East High School, more...

Adjectives:
important, second, first, last, only, same, such, usual, further, lockean, special



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