Provisionals
Speech parts
1. Provisionals - Noun
2. Provisionals - Proper noun
Meaning
Provisionals
plural of Provisional
the Provisionals
(informal) The Irish Republican Army.
Examples
Gerry Adams, who had joined the republican movement in the early 1960s, sided with the Provisionals.
By 1992, the IPLO was destroyed by the Provisionals for its involvement in drug dealing thus ending the feud.
One of its slogans was "out of the ashes rose the Provisionals".