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provisional

/pruh-vizh-uh-nl/US // prəˈvɪʒ ə nl //UK // (prəˈvɪʒənəl) //

暂时的,暂时,暂时性的,暂时性

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    Also pro·vi·sion·ar·y [pruh-vizh-uh-ner-ee] /prəˈvɪʒ əˌnɛr i/ .

    • : providing or serving for the time being only; existing only until permanently or properly replaced; temporary: a provisional government.
    • : accepted or adopted tentatively; conditional; probationary.
    • : of or being the wing of the Irish Republican Army that follows a policy of violence.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Philately. a stamp that serves temporarily, pending the appearance of the regular issue, or during a temporary shortage of the regular stamps.
    • : a provisional member of a group.
    • : a member of the Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army.

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Examples

  • The new estimate also does not fully account for drug overdose deaths, which have risen in 2020 according to provisional counts.

  • Regulators granted provisional approval to Sinovac’s CoronaVac, doses of which have already been ordered by Turkey, Ukraine, and Brazil.

  • Flat jobs growth and a provisional decline in restaurant jobs could pressure lawmakers to reach a stimulus deal soon

  • Elections officials make sure your mail-in ballot was not counted before they process your provisional ballot.

  • The latest change to the provisional deadline, spotted earlier by Reuters, could be the result of one of the parties asking for more time.

  • The spirit of the novel is one of doubt and questioning; its knowledge is provisional and its perspectives multiple.

  • Most radical was the 1856 Provisional Constitution drafted by northern abolitionists, including John Brown.

  • The book opens in December of 2003 with the story of an ambush of the convoy of Coalition Provisional Authority chief Paul Bremer.

  • Some students waited in line for seven hours to get provisional ballots.

  • It is better to at least guarantee the Palestinians a state even if its borders are provisional.

  • The next three months were spent almost entirely in establishing provisional juntas in the different capitals.

  • One of the provisional junta of government is the greatest slave merchant here.

  • These papers were received by the junta of Provisional Government, at whose head was the Bishop.

  • The actual bridge must have the section of all members greater than those in the provisional design in the ratio k/(1-k).

  • To some extent the policy of the Provisional Government excused his change of attitude.