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• s  under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon
  a provisional government

• The selection of a provisional head of state capped a month of cutthroat political maneuvering that began with the elections for a constituent assembly.
• Today, the Agreement still operates on a provisional basis, pending its ratification by the Russian parliament.
• The latest bus bombing casts a shadow over plans for 'provisional' Palestine.

• probationary
• provisionary
• tentative

News & Articles

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• Election Officials Reviewing Provisional Ballots in Democratic Primary
  Officials have been looking at provisional ballots in order to break the tie between Fenwick and Bellamy.
  June 12, 2013 - WCAV Charlottesville
• Butkovitz: 2012 election 'a failure'
  City Controller Alan Butkovtiz released a report detailing why so many provisional ballots were cast.
  June 12, 2013 - Philly.com
• DIARY - Malaysia
  + ALL TIMES ARE PROVISIONAL AND IN LOCAL TIME FOLLOWED BY GMT IN BRACKETS WEDNESDAY, JUN 12 * KUALA LUMPUR - Asean-Korea SME Conference 2013 at Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Kuala Lumpur (to June 13). ...
  June 11, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! Finance