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proviso

/pɹəˈvaɪzoʊ/

proviso noun: a conditional provision to an agreement.

Noun

proviso (plural provisos or provisoes)

  1. A conditional provision to an agreement.
    • Now, with all these provisos in mind, what’s the best way to put spinach to work? All due respect to Popeye, a can may not be the tastiest way to introduce it to your table.2021 July 1, Gregory McNamee, “Does spinach make you strong? Ask Popeye – and science”, in CNN, archived from the original on 24 Aug 2025
    • The biggest change in the governance of American horse racing was tucked into a 2020 federal spending bill. That proviso ultimately created the national Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority, or HISA – a move that, after three previous legislative attempts, found support from federal lawmakers...2023 June 10, Majlie de Puy Kamp, Curt Devine, Audrey Ash, Casey Tolan, Allison Gordon and Pamela Brown, “As horse racing’s best trainers rake in millions, records show they’ve violated rules aimed...

Proper noun capitalized: Proviso

Proviso

  1. A township in Cook County, Illinois, United States.

proviso meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

proviso in Tamil

காப்புரை, காப்புவாசகம், வரம்புரை, விலக்குரை, விலக்குக் கூறு, விலக்குக்கூறு

proviso in Urdu

اقرار, شرط

proviso in Bengali

শর্ত, বিশেষ বিধান

proviso in Malayalam

ഉപാധി, നിബന്ധന, വ്യവസ്ഥ
More languagesFewer languages
proviso in Kannada
ಕರಾರು ವಾಕ್ಯ, ಷರತ್ತು, ನಿಬಂಧನೆ, ಕಟ್ಟಳೆ

Forms of proviso

pluralprovisos
pluralprovisoes

Plural of proviso: provisos or provisoes

Origin of proviso

Borrowed from Latin proviso (“it being provided”), ablative singular neuter of provisus, past participle of providere (“to provide”); see provide.

Named for the Wilmot Proviso.

Questions about proviso

What does proviso mean?
Proviso means a conditional provision to an agreement.
What is proviso in Tamil?
Proviso in Tamil is காப்புரை, காப்புவாசகம், வரம்புரை. See Proviso meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is proviso?
Proviso can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce proviso?
Proviso is pronounced /pɹəˈvaɪzoʊ/.
What is the plural of proviso?
The plural of proviso is provisos.

Words near proviso in the dictionary

  1. provisionings
  2. provisionless
  3. provisionment
  4. provisionments
  5. provisions
  6. proviso
  7. proviso quod
  8. provisoes
  9. provisor
  10. provisories
  11. provisorily

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: proviso (page history and authors); Proviso (page history and authors); proviso (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); proviso (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); proviso (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); proviso (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); proviso (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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