Synonyms:
probationary, provisional, provisionary, tentative
Meaning: under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon; "probationary employees"; "a provisional government"; "just a tentative schedule"
Usage examples
The Fall of the Provisional Government
"Oh, Kerensky is guilty of the sins of the Provisional Government," answered the other man.
A few minutes later another, with armed soldiers on the front seat, full of arrested members of the Provisional Government.
In the name of the Military Revolutionary Committee Trotzky had declared that the Provisional Government no longer existed.
Truth to the scientific mind is something provisional, a hypothesis that for the present moment best conforms to the recognized tests.
Red Guards are incapable of handling a complicated business like the railways; as for the Provisional Government, it has shown itself incapable of holding the power...
Colonel Polkovnikov was in command of their forces, and the orders were signed by Gotz, former member of the Provisional Government, allowed at liberty on his word of honour....
On behalf of the Mensheviki, Khintchuk then announced that the only possibility of a peaceful solution was to begin negotiations with the Provisional Government for the formation of a new Cabinet, which would find support in all strata of society.