transitional
adjective
of or relating to a transition from one position, state, stage, subject, concept, etc., to another: transitional housing for people with serious mental illness.
transitionary
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a variation of
transitional.
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a word derived from
transition.
transitionnounmovement, passage, or change from one position, state, stage, subject, concept, etc., to another; change.
Example Sentences
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“If I can’t physically send things, it can have a transitionary impact,” Kapur said, according to a FactSet transcript.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 17, 2026
“They made a complete 180-degree turn without even going through a transitionary period.”
From Washington Times ● Dec. 14, 2022
Octopus will continue to use Bulb's technology and branding "for a transitionary period", the government's statement said.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2022
“It’s about the uncertainty of being in a transitionary period in one’s life, and as that feeling happened to me again, I tapped back into it,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2020
Nor are the authorities idle: though unluckily, all Authorities, Municipalities and such like, are in the uncertain transitionary state; getting regenerated from old Monarchic to new Democratic; no Official yet knows clearly what he is.
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
