(n)a militant organization of Irish nationalists who used terrorism and guerilla warfare in an effort to drive British forces from Northern Ireland and achieve a united independent Ireland, Syn.Provisional Irish Republican Army, Provisional IRA, IRA, Provos
a. [ Cf. F. provisionnel. ] Of the nature of a provision; serving as a provision for the time being; -- used of partial or temporary arrangements; as, a provisional government; a provisional treaty. [ 1913 Webster ]
[二次革命, èr cì gé mìng, ㄦˋ ㄘˋ ㄍㄜˊ ㄇㄧㄥˋ]second revolution; campaign from 1913 of the provisional revolutionary government (under Sun Yat-sen and the Guomindang) against Yuan Shikai 袁世凱|袁世凯 and the Northern Warlords[Add to Longdo]