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Definition: Conditional |
ConditionalAdjective1. Qualified by reservations. 2. Imposing or depending on or containing a condition; "conditional acceptance of the terms"; "lent conditional support"; "the conditional sale will not be complete until the full purchase price is paid". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "conditional" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | A statement in a segment or message directory of a condition for the use of a segment, a data element, a composite data element or a component data element. Source: European Union. (references) |
Statistics | In some contexts this word may merely have its ordinary meaning and imply that there exist certain conditions obeyed by the quantities under discussion. It occurs most often in a specialised sense relating to variates. Source: European Union. (references) |
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| Antonym: unconditional (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Circumstance | Adjective: circumstantial; given, conditional, provisional; critical; modal; contingent, incidental; adventitious; (extrinsic); limitative. |
Conditions | Adjective: conditional, provisional, guarded, fenced, hedged in. |
Qualification | Adjective: qualifying; Verb: qualified, conditioned, restricted, hedged; conditional; exceptional; (unconformable). |
State | Adjective: conditional, modal, formal; structural, organic. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | The suspension of your sentence is conditional upon your continued cooperation with this programme. (Trainspotting; writing credit: John Hodge. Based on the novel by Irvine Welsh.) | |
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Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The Allied and Associated Governments reserve the right to make the repatriation of German prisoners of war or German nationals in their hands conditional upon the immediate notification and release by the German Government of any prisoners of war who are nationals of the Allied and Associated Powers and may still be in Germany. (reference) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | A number of criminal justice alternatives to incarceration have been tried with offenders who have drug disorders, including limited diversion programs, pretrial release conditional on entry into treatment, and conditional probation with sanctions. (references) | |
Business | Many machine tool sales are conditional to a pre-acceptance inspection visit by the agents of the Chinese buyer. (references) | |
Foreign suppliers will normally be required to enter into an Industrial Cooperation Agreement (offset) equal to at least 100 percent of contract value for all procurements of DKK 25 million or more. For major procurements of over DKK 100 million, the potential supplier must sign conditional contracts covering at least 30 percent of contract value before contract award. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Turkey | Fuat still faces charges of engaging in illegal activities and dressing in violation of public order; his trial in the Izmir felony court is scheduled for March 2002. In August the trial in Ankara of a group of Islamist politicians and business figures of the "National View Organization" ended, when the court decided to apply the December 2000 Conditional Suspension of Sentences Law and dismissed the trial. (references) |
Economic History | Israel | BIRD funding is in the form of conditional grants of up to 50 percent of approved r&d costs over a two-three-year period. (references) |
Ethiopia | U.S. development assistance to Ethiopia is conditional on progress in democracy and human rights as well as economic reforms. (references) | |
Human Rights | Tunisia | He was released at the end of May under conditional parole. (references) |
Tunisia | His June arrest occurred after a conditional parole of 41/2 years. (references) | |
Poland | In nine cases, the prosecutor recommended conditional discontinuance. (references) | |
Political Economy | PAKISTAN | There is also a list of restricted or conditional items that may be imported only by certain parties (e.g., the government or other specified users) or by certain special arrangements (e.g., imports against credit). (references) |
Turkey | In December 2000, Parliament passed the "Law on Probation of Sentences and Deferment of Judgements" (Conditional Suspension of Sentences Law) which granted the conditional release at that time to thousands of prison inmates and suspended the trials of hundreds of others. (references) | |
Political Rights | Turkey | In July a similar case was adjudicated by the Court, concerning former "Re-birth" party leader Hasan Celal Guzel, who had also been convicted under Article 312. The Court allowed Guzel to resume political activities by ruling that the December 2000 Conditional Suspension of Sentences Law effectively released him from a previous political ban. (references) |
Trade | Tunisia | TDA'S SERVICES IN RECENT YEARS HAVE INCLUDED FEASIBILITY STUDY FUNDING, CONDITIONAL TRAINING GRANTS, AND TRADE DEVELOPMENT MISSIONS. (references) |
Switzerland | Agricultural Products: Until July 1, 1995, Switzerland's highly subsidized agricultural sector operated behind a variety of import restrictions -- licensing, quotas, supplementary import charges, variable levies, conditional import rules, import calendars, and the like. (references) | |
Women | Russia | In 2000 6,441 persons were convicted of rape; 1,143 received conditional sentences. (references) |
Worker Rights | Switzerland | Each year a few employers are fined or receive conditional sentences for violations of the law. (references) |
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| "Conditional" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.87% of the time. "Conditional" is used about 792 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 98.87% | 783 | 8,834 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.13% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Total | 100.00% | 792 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "conditional": conditional access system ♦ conditional clause ♦ conditional clauses ♦ conditional contract ♦ conditional discharge ♦ conditional mood ♦ conditional on ♦ conditional reaction ♦ conditional reflex ♦ conditional relation ♦ conditional response ♦ conditional sale ♦ conditional sentence ♦ conditional use area ♦ make conditional on. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "conditional": conditional-roughly. | |
Ending with "conditional": truth-conditional. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "conditional"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | me kusht, kushtore, i varur (ancillary, baggy, dangling, dependant, dependent, depending, flagging, hanging, in suspense, pendant, pendent, pending, pendulous, pensile, slavish, subject, suspended), i kushtëzuar (conditioned, hypothetic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مشروط (conditioned, contingent, dependent, provisional), شرطي (bobby, bull, constable, cop, copper, gendarme, officer, pig, provisional, provisory, sleuth, subjunctive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | условен (conditioned, conventional, nisi, provisional, provisory), зависещ от условия. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 有条件. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | podmiòovací, podmíneèný, kondicionál. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | fakultativ, betinget varians, betinget. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | conditioneel, voorwaardelijk. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مقید (Bound, Modal, Pent), موکول , مشروطه , نامعلوم (Equivocal, Hazy, Incalculable, Inconspicuous, Indescribable, Indistinct, Invisible, Pendant, Uncertain, Uncharted, Unknown, Unlimited), شرطی (Eventual, Provisional). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ehdollinen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | conditionnel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | bedingt (conditionally, conditioned, limited, provisory, qualified), konditional, bedingt durch. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | C (corrosive), γενόμενοσ υπό όρουσ, υπό συνθήκη, υπό συνθήκες, υποθετικόσ (assumed, conjectural, hypothetic, hypothetical, presumptive, suppositional), εξαρτώμενοσ από όρουσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מות " (conditioned, stipulated), על ת אי (on probation, provisory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | feltételes (conditioned, contingent, hypothetical, potential, provisory, qualified). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | bersyarat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | condizionale (conditioned, suspended). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 紐付き , 但し付き . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | た しづき, た しつき, ひもつき. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 조건. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | kianglagh (binding, incumbent, obligatory, tying). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | onditionalcay condicional (provisory, qualified). (various references) condiţional (conditionally), determina (abstract, appoint, ascertain, bring, call forth, cause, convince, define, determine, dictate, draw, entail, establish, find, fix, gather, govern, induce, infer, lead, make, mark out, modify, persuade, procure, produce, prompt, provoke, reason, urge). (various references) условный (nominal, prearranged, probational, probationary). (various references) uslovni (conditioned, probationary), pogodbeni (concessive), kondicionalan, kondicional. (various references) condicional (provisory). (various references) villkorlig (contingent, provisory). (various references) koşullara bağlı (circumstantial), bağlı (adherent, adhesive, affiliated, amenable, appurtenant, attached, banded, bonded, bound, cohesive, conjoint, connected, consequent, corded, dependant, dependent, devoted, faithful, germane, hooked, incidental, laced, observant, related, subject, subject to, subordinate, tied, under), şartlı (conditioned, contingent, on approval, provisory, qualified). (various references) юertli. (various references) умовний (contingent, factitious, nominal, provisional, provisory, relative, simulated, subjunctive), обумовлений (bespoke, conditioned, conventional, given, modal, providential). (various references) amodol. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "conditional": conditionalities, conditionality, conditionally, conditionals. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "conditional": biconditional, unconditional. (additional references) | |
Words containing "conditional": biconditionals, unconditionally. (additional references) | |
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"Conditional" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: condicionem, conditione, contritional. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "conditional" (pronounced kundi"shunul) |
| 10 | k u n d i" sh u n u l | unconditional. |
| 7 | -d i" sh u n u l | additional, nontraditional, traditional, untraditional. |
| 6 | -i" sh u n u l | compositional, depositional, nutritional, transitional. |
| 5 | -sh u n u l | aberrational, binational, coeducational, computational, concessional, confessional, conformational, confrontational, congregational, congressional, connotational, constitutional, conventional, conversational, correctional, denominational, devotional, dimensional, directional, dysfunctional, educational, emotional, exceptional, factional, fictional, fluxional, foundational, fractional, functional, generational, gravitational, improvisational, informational, inspirational, institutional, instructional, intentional, intergenerational, international, investigational, Invitational, irrational, jurisdictional, motivational, multinational, national, navigational, nonprofessional, obsessional, occupational, operational, optional, organizational, processional, professional, promotional, proportional, rational, recreational, relational, representational, rotational, sectional, sensational, situational, supranational, transformational, transnational, unconstitutional, unconventional, unemotional, unintentional, unprofessional, vocational. |
| 4 | -u n u l | abdominal, aboriginal, Arsenal, attitudinal, biphenyl, cantonal, Cardinal, collisional, criminal, delusional, diagonal, divisional, doctrinal, duodenal, erosional, gastrointestinal, hexagonal, impersonal, interpersonal, intestinal, juvenile, latitudinal, longitudinal, luminal, marginal, medicinal, nominal, noncriminal, occasional, octagonal, original, personal, phenomenal, polygonal, provisional, regional, retinal, seasonal, seminal, sentinel, subliminal, superregional, terminal, virginal. |
| 3 | -n u l | adrenal, anal, annal, annul, atonal, autumnal, carnal, channel, Colonel, communal, cornel, Darnel, departmental, diurnal, empanel, eternal, external, faunal, fennel, final, flannel, fraternal, funnel, hormonal, Hymnal, impanel, infernal, internal, journal, kennel, kernel, maternal, monoclonal, monsoonal, morainal, nocturnal, panel, paternal, penal, polyvinyl, renal, semifinal, shrapnel, signal, spinal, tonal, tribunal, tunnel, vaginal, venal, vernal, Vinal, vinyl. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-i-i-l-n-n-o-o-t" | |
-2 letters: anticodon, clintonia, coalition, coitional, condition, dictional, noncoital. | |
-3 letters: actinoid, anconoid, anticold, conation, conidial, conidian, conoidal, daltonic, diatonic, dilation, donation, inaction, indicant, iodation, location, nontidal, notional. | |
-4 letters: actinon, anionic, antlion, cannoli, coition, conidia, contain, coolant, cotidal, diction, indican, lianoid, nicotin, nitinol, nodical, nonacid, noncola, octanol, oolitic, tolidin. | |
-5 letters: action, alnico, anilin, anodic, anoint, atonic, cannot. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-i-i-l-n-n-o-o-t" | |
+1 letter: conditionals. | |
+2 letters: biconditional, conditionable, conditionally, consolidating, consolidation, nondiplomatic, unconditional. | |
+3 letters: biconditionals, conditionality, consolidations, dechlorination, decolonization, disconsolation, nondirectional. | |
+4 letters: dechlorinations, decolonizations, disconsolations, nonconfidential, omnidirectional, reconsolidating, unconditionally. | |
+5 letters: conditionalities, conventionalized, nondisjunctional. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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