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proviso noun [ prəˈvʌɪzəʊ ]

• a condition or qualification attached to an agreement or statement.
• "he let his house with the proviso that his own staff should remain to run it"
Similar: condition, stipulation, provision, clause, rider, qualification, restriction, reservation, caveat, limitation, strings,
Origin: late Middle English: from the medieval Latin phrase proviso (quod) ‘it being provided (that)’, from Latin providere ‘foresee, provide’.


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