provisonoun [ C ]
uk/prəˈvaɪ.zəʊ/us/prəˈvaɪ.zoʊ/plural provisosa statement in an agreement, saying that a particular thing must happen before another can:
[ + that ] He was released from prison with/on the proviso that he doesn't leave the country.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Range and limits
- all the way to idiom
- ambit
- band
- bound
- boundary
- breadth
- condition
- limit
- limited
- meta-
- narrow
- narrowly
- range
- spread
- stricture
- string
- strings attached idiom
- term
- the gamut
- threshold
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