MEANING
Relating to the process or stage of moving from one condition, form, or system to another.
Use it for
describing arrangements used while a system changes; identifying an intermediate stage rather than a final form; distinguishing a transition-related measure from any temporary measureIdentifies a role or stage in a change between states, not simply a short-lived arrangement. Academic functions: Change / Pattern / Trend.
Words that belong together
- a transitional period
- transitional arrangements
- a transitional stage
On the page
Transitional arrangements protected existing students while the qualification system changed.
The chapter treats the movement as transitional rather than as a fully settled political order.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- transitional
Usage notes
Relational adjective, usually attributive. Normally no comparative/superlative. Register: formal. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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