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