Proviso

Our manager agreed to let us work from home indefinitely with the proviso that we attend monthly meetings in person.

I have only one proviso: you must not use any power tools to build the table.

On the proviso that you don't use mayonaise, you may make me a sandwich.

Now, with all these provisos in mind, what’s the best way to put spinach to work? All due respect to Popeye, a can may not be the tastiest way to introduce it to your table.

The biggest change in the governance of American horse racing was tucked into a 2020 federal spending bill. That proviso ultimately created the national Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority, or HISA – a move that, after three previous legislative attempts, found support from federal lawmakers after a particularly deadly season at a California racetrack.

The writing has been on the wall that Americans’ support for mass deportation was subject to all kinds of caveats and provisos.