provisional (redirected from provisionally)

provisional (less commonly), provisionary

a postage stamp surcharged during an emergency to alter the stamp's denomination or significance until a new or regular issue is printed

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Provisional

of, designating, or relating to the unofficial factions of the IRA and Sinn Féin that became increasingly dominant following a split in 1969. The Provisional movement remained committed to a policy of terrorism until its ceasefires of the mid-1990s