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ad referendum

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adverb

  1. subject to agreement by others and finalization of details

    an ad referendum contract

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of ad referendum

Latin

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In other words, I have only voted "ad referendum," and I ask that my statement be entered in the protocol.

From International Conference Held at Washington for the Purpose of Fixing a Prime Meridian and a Universal Day. October, 1884. Protocols of the Proceedings by Various

The statement that Paraguay is a party to the Mexico City convention of 1902 seems a misapprehension arising from the fact that her representative signed ad referendum.

From Copyright: Its History and Its Law by Richard Rogers Bowker

But as I see no authority for it other than mere tradition, I believe my share of it, and take it ad referendum.

From From London to Land's End and Two Letters from the "Journey through England by a Gentleman" by Henry Morley

He selects such parts as he judges proper, and prints them, to be taken ad referendum, and laid before 504 the Regencies of the cities.

From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution (Volume VI) by Various

My journey has gained the time which would have been lost, if they had, on re-assembling here taken the thing ad referendum.

From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. IX by Jared Sparks

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