Meaning & use
Provisos
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Conditions or stipulations attached to an agreement; plural of proviso.
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The contract included several provisos limiting the company's liability.
She agreed to the trip, with the provisos that they'd leave early and avoid the highway.
A note on using this word
From the Latin legal phrase proviso quod, meaning 'it being provided that,' commonly used to introduce a condition in formal documents.
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