proviso

Definitions


[prəˈvʌɪzəʊ], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a condition or qualification attached to an agreement or statement
(e.g: he let his house with the proviso that his own staff should remain to run it)


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English: from the medieval Latin phrase proviso (quod) ‘it being provided (that)’, from Latin providere ‘foresee, provide’




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