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
It is usual to reckon Delavigne as transitionary between the two schools, but in strictness he must be counted with the classicists.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various
