Definition of conditional in English:

conditional

adjective kənˈdɪʃ(ə)n(ə)lkənˈdɪʃ(ə)n(ə)l

1Subject to one or more conditions or requirements being met.
有条件的，有前提的；视…而定的
the consortium have made a conditional offer
这个财团提出一个有条件的报价。
Western aid was only granted conditional on further reform
只有进一步改革，西方才会提供援助。
Example sentencesExamples
- Essex County Council, which owns the building, has given a conditional offer of financial help, worth about £90,000, to the campaigners.
- Although only aged 12 and 13, the children will receive conditional offers of university places in the city which are dependent on their subsequent academic performance.
- Mr. Hood said at the time the consortium made their bid too late and it was a conditional offer.
- Those offenders will be offered conditional cautions in future, meaning they will escape prosecution but must agree to co-operate with rehabilitation projects.
- On the other hand, with the organic view of self, the transformational leader puts more value on interdependence, conditional autonomy and meeting social obligations toward others.
- It may be permitted subject to a conditional use permit (meaning you have to meet certain additional criteria before you build or remodel), or it may not be allowed at all.
- Legal sources have expressed mixed views over the true meaning of the company's conditional offer to meet future claims, with some on the union side now extremely sceptical.
- It was agreed by the meeting for the clerk to proceed with the conditional offer made to rent the Pound for a period of two years with the proviso that the old tin shed could be removed.
- A further 20 students have received conditional offers.
- It said that ‘crucially’ students with underestimated grades did ‘not receive the conditional offers that they merit’.
- Richmond council recently gave its conditional support to a soil treatment project in our city.
- He also offered conditional support to the June summit.
- But this support is clearly conditional and tenuous, even if that's never explicitly stated by either party.
- Months of hard work and dedication paid off when literature lover Jane, 37, was given a conditional offer to study English at Harris Manchester College, which caters for mature students.
- These conditional drug company offers have angered AIDS groups.
- The council has given conditional support to a referendum, but has expressed concern over a number of issues.
- The healthcare professional, who has been offered a conditional post, will begin working in the county from January 2005.
- This conditional offer became known as ‘the pocket,’ as it was placed in Warren Christopher's pocket.
- When asked about his views on the canal he declined even conditional support, listing numerous hurdles required to be overcome before approval would be considered for federal funding.
- She had a conditional offer from art school but deliberately sabotaged her exams.
Synonyms
subject to, dependent on, depending on, contingent on, hingeing on, resting on, hanging on, based on, determined by, controlled by, tied to, bound up with
contingent, dependent, qualified, with conditions (attached), with reservations, limited, restrictive, provisional
rare stipulatory, provisory
2Grammar
(of a clause, phrase, conjunction, or verb form) expressing a condition.
〔语法〕（从句，词组，连词，动词形式）表示条件的，条件的
Example sentencesExamples
- Somehow that conditional clause seemed to drop away from most of the press reports.
- As indicated above, this is an argument with conditional clauses all of which are debatable.
- God's promise of the Land of Israel to the Jews has its unconditional clause and its conditional clause.
- Marriage vows don't include a conditional fulfillment clause.
- And she puts it in a conditional clause, which makes a difference.

noun kənˈdɪʃ(ə)n(ə)lkənˈdɪʃ(ə)n(ə)l

Grammar

1Philosophy
A conditional clause or conjunction.
〔语法，哲〕条件从句（或连词）
Example sentencesExamples
- But notice that it is not a conjunction of conditionals of the form ‘If John said that p, then p,’ each with a true antecedent.
- Let us turn now, though, to subjunctive conditionals contextualism.
- There are a variety of conditionals in English, each type having a distinct meaning.
- This should have been a conjunction, not a conditional.
- Subjunctive conditionals are connected with natural laws.
1. 1.1 A sentence containing a conditional clause.
  条件句
  Example sentencesExamples
  This possible world account of counterfactual conditionals is widely accepted, and partly for this reason the idiom of possible worlds is now a familiar feature of philosophical discourse.
  A particularly clear case of where you need it is in counterfactual conditionals: ‘If you did not sign on, your account could be temporarily suspended.’
  Recall that a conditional is a sentence of the form if a then c, which we are writing as a c.
  Note that the inductive argument the agents run through depends upon the conclusions they each draw from several counterfactual conditionals.
  But it's my guess that most people take the first two clauses of the song as the protases of a conditional, rather than as rhetorical questions.
2mass noun The conditional mood of a verb, for example should in if I should die.
〔语法〕（动词的）条件语气（如if I should die 中的should）
Example sentencesExamples
- The grammar of the lyrics uses what is called the conditional.
- Romanian uses an analytic construction for the conditional.
- In this learn Spanish grammar lesson, we review the Spanish conditional tense and how to conjugate Spanish verbs in the conditional.

Derivatives

conditionality

nounkəndɪʃ(ə)ˈnalɪtikənˌdɪʃəˈnælədi

I personally believe that conditionality should be imposed.
Example sentencesExamples
- He cites two reasons: ‘One is its clarity and lack of conditionality.’
- It is towards growth that our programs and their conditionality are aimed.
- ‘That would interrupt the essential conditionality of it,’ he says.
- In recent years the UK has been moving away from traditional approaches to conditionality.

Definition of conditional in US English:

conditional

adjectivekənˈdɪʃ(ə)n(ə)lkənˈdiSH(ə)n(ə)l

1Subject to one or more conditions or requirements being met; made or granted on certain terms.
有条件的，有前提的；视…而定的
the consortium has made a conditional offer
这个财团提出一个有条件的报价。
Western aid was only granted conditional on further reform
只有进一步改革，西方才会提供援助。
Example sentencesExamples
- But this support is clearly conditional and tenuous, even if that's never explicitly stated by either party.
- She had a conditional offer from art school but deliberately sabotaged her exams.
- Months of hard work and dedication paid off when literature lover Jane, 37, was given a conditional offer to study English at Harris Manchester College, which caters for mature students.
- These conditional drug company offers have angered AIDS groups.
- It may be permitted subject to a conditional use permit (meaning you have to meet certain additional criteria before you build or remodel), or it may not be allowed at all.
- It said that ‘crucially’ students with underestimated grades did ‘not receive the conditional offers that they merit’.
- Legal sources have expressed mixed views over the true meaning of the company's conditional offer to meet future claims, with some on the union side now extremely sceptical.
- Mr. Hood said at the time the consortium made their bid too late and it was a conditional offer.
- A further 20 students have received conditional offers.
- Those offenders will be offered conditional cautions in future, meaning they will escape prosecution but must agree to co-operate with rehabilitation projects.
- This conditional offer became known as ‘the pocket,’ as it was placed in Warren Christopher's pocket.
- When asked about his views on the canal he declined even conditional support, listing numerous hurdles required to be overcome before approval would be considered for federal funding.
- Although only aged 12 and 13, the children will receive conditional offers of university places in the city which are dependent on their subsequent academic performance.
- The healthcare professional, who has been offered a conditional post, will begin working in the county from January 2005.
- He also offered conditional support to the June summit.
- It was agreed by the meeting for the clerk to proceed with the conditional offer made to rent the Pound for a period of two years with the proviso that the old tin shed could be removed.
- Richmond council recently gave its conditional support to a soil treatment project in our city.
- On the other hand, with the organic view of self, the transformational leader puts more value on interdependence, conditional autonomy and meeting social obligations toward others.
- Essex County Council, which owns the building, has given a conditional offer of financial help, worth about £90,000, to the campaigners.
- The council has given conditional support to a referendum, but has expressed concern over a number of issues.
Synonyms
subject to, dependent on, depending on, contingent on, hingeing on, resting on, hanging on, based on, determined by, controlled by, tied to, bound up with
contingent, dependent, qualified, with conditions, with conditions attached, with reservations, limited, restrictive, provisional
2Grammar
(of a clause, phrase, conjunction, or verb form) expressing a condition.
〔语法〕（从句，词组，连词，动词形式）表示条件的，条件的
Example sentencesExamples
- God's promise of the Land of Israel to the Jews has its unconditional clause and its conditional clause.
- Marriage vows don't include a conditional fulfillment clause.
- As indicated above, this is an argument with conditional clauses all of which are debatable.
- Somehow that conditional clause seemed to drop away from most of the press reports.
- And she puts it in a conditional clause, which makes a difference.

nounkənˈdɪʃ(ə)n(ə)lkənˈdiSH(ə)n(ə)l

Grammar

1Philosophy
A conditional clause or conjunction.
〔语法，哲〕条件从句（或连词）
Example sentencesExamples
- Subjunctive conditionals are connected with natural laws.
- Let us turn now, though, to subjunctive conditionals contextualism.
- But notice that it is not a conjunction of conditionals of the form ‘If John said that p, then p,’ each with a true antecedent.
- There are a variety of conditionals in English, each type having a distinct meaning.
- This should have been a conjunction, not a conditional.
1. 1.1 A statement or sentence containing a conditional clause.
  条件句
  Example sentencesExamples
  A particularly clear case of where you need it is in counterfactual conditionals: ‘If you did not sign on, your account could be temporarily suspended.’
  Note that the inductive argument the agents run through depends upon the conclusions they each draw from several counterfactual conditionals.
  But it's my guess that most people take the first two clauses of the song as the protases of a conditional, rather than as rhetorical questions.
  Recall that a conditional is a sentence of the form if a then c, which we are writing as a c.
  This possible world account of counterfactual conditionals is widely accepted, and partly for this reason the idiom of possible worlds is now a familiar feature of philosophical discourse.
2The conditional mood of a verb, for example should die in if I should die.
〔语法〕（动词的）条件语气（如if I should die 中的should）
Example sentencesExamples
- Romanian uses an analytic construction for the conditional.
- The grammar of the lyrics uses what is called the conditional.
- In this learn Spanish grammar lesson, we review the Spanish conditional tense and how to conjugate Spanish verbs in the conditional.

单词	conditional
释义	Definition of conditional in English: conditional adjective kənˈdɪʃ(ə)n(ə)lkənˈdɪʃ(ə)n(ə)l 1Subject to one or more conditions or requirements being met. 有条件的，有前提的；视…而定的 the consortium have made a conditional offer 这个财团提出一个有条件的报价。 Western aid was only granted conditional on further reform 只有进一步改革，西方才会提供援助。 Example sentencesExamples Essex County Council, which owns the building, has given a conditional offer of financial help, worth about £90,000, to the campaigners. Although only aged 12 and 13, the children will receive conditional offers of university places in the city which are dependent on their subsequent academic performance. Mr. Hood said at the time the consortium made their bid too late and it was a conditional offer. Those offenders will be offered conditional cautions in future, meaning they will escape prosecution but must agree to co-operate with rehabilitation projects. On the other hand, with the organic view of self, the transformational leader puts more value on interdependence, conditional autonomy and meeting social obligations toward others. It may be permitted subject to a conditional use permit (meaning you have to meet certain additional criteria before you build or remodel), or it may not be allowed at all. Legal sources have expressed mixed views over the true meaning of the company's conditional offer to meet future claims, with some on the union side now extremely sceptical. It was agreed by the meeting for the clerk to proceed with the conditional offer made to rent the Pound for a period of two years with the proviso that the old tin shed could be removed. A further 20 students have received conditional offers. It said that ‘crucially’ students with underestimated grades did ‘not receive the conditional offers that they merit’. Richmond council recently gave its conditional support to a soil treatment project in our city. He also offered conditional support to the June summit. But this support is clearly conditional and tenuous, even if that's never explicitly stated by either party. Months of hard work and dedication paid off when literature lover Jane, 37, was given a conditional offer to study English at Harris Manchester College, which caters for mature students. These conditional drug company offers have angered AIDS groups. The council has given conditional support to a referendum, but has expressed concern over a number of issues. The healthcare professional, who has been offered a conditional post, will begin working in the county from January 2005. This conditional offer became known as ‘the pocket,’ as it was placed in Warren Christopher's pocket. When asked about his views on the canal he declined even conditional support, listing numerous hurdles required to be overcome before approval would be considered for federal funding. She had a conditional offer from art school but deliberately sabotaged her exams. Synonyms subject to, dependent on, depending on, contingent on, hingeing on, resting on, hanging on, based on, determined by, controlled by, tied to, bound up with contingent, dependent, qualified, with conditions (attached), with reservations, limited, restrictive, provisional rare stipulatory, provisory 2Grammar (of a clause, phrase, conjunction, or verb form) expressing a condition. 〔语法〕（从句，词组，连词，动词形式）表示条件的，条件的 Example sentencesExamples Somehow that conditional clause seemed to drop away from most of the press reports. As indicated above, this is an argument with conditional clauses all of which are debatable. God's promise of the Land of Israel to the Jews has its unconditional clause and its conditional clause. Marriage vows don't include a conditional fulfillment clause. And she puts it in a conditional clause, which makes a difference. noun kənˈdɪʃ(ə)n(ə)lkənˈdɪʃ(ə)n(ə)l Grammar 1Philosophy A conditional clause or conjunction. 〔语法，哲〕条件从句（或连词） Example sentencesExamples But notice that it is not a conjunction of conditionals of the form ‘If John said that p, then p,’ each with a true antecedent. Let us turn now, though, to subjunctive conditionals contextualism. There are a variety of conditionals in English, each type having a distinct meaning. This should have been a conjunction, not a conditional. Subjunctive conditionals are connected with natural laws. 1.1 A sentence containing a conditional clause. 条件句 Example sentencesExamples This possible world account of counterfactual conditionals is widely accepted, and partly for this reason the idiom of possible worlds is now a familiar feature of philosophical discourse. A particularly clear case of where you need it is in counterfactual conditionals: ‘If you did not sign on, your account could be temporarily suspended.’ Recall that a conditional is a sentence of the form if a then c, which we are writing as a c. Note that the inductive argument the agents run through depends upon the conclusions they each draw from several counterfactual conditionals. But it's my guess that most people take the first two clauses of the song as the protases of a conditional, rather than as rhetorical questions. 2mass noun The conditional mood of a verb, for example should in if I should die. 〔语法〕（动词的）条件语气（如if I should die 中的should） Example sentencesExamples The grammar of the lyrics uses what is called the conditional. Romanian uses an analytic construction for the conditional. In this learn Spanish grammar lesson, we review the Spanish conditional tense and how to conjugate Spanish verbs in the conditional. Derivatives conditionality nounkəndɪʃ(ə)ˈnalɪtikənˌdɪʃəˈnælədi I personally believe that conditionality should be imposed. Example sentencesExamples He cites two reasons: ‘One is its clarity and lack of conditionality.’ It is towards growth that our programs and their conditionality are aimed. ‘That would interrupt the essential conditionality of it,’ he says. In recent years the UK has been moving away from traditional approaches to conditionality. Definition of conditional in US English: conditional adjectivekənˈdɪʃ(ə)n(ə)lkənˈdiSH(ə)n(ə)l 1Subject to one or more conditions or requirements being met; made or granted on certain terms. 有条件的，有前提的；视…而定的 the consortium has made a conditional offer 这个财团提出一个有条件的报价。 Western aid was only granted conditional on further reform 只有进一步改革，西方才会提供援助。 Example sentencesExamples But this support is clearly conditional and tenuous, even if that's never explicitly stated by either party. She had a conditional offer from art school but deliberately sabotaged her exams. Months of hard work and dedication paid off when literature lover Jane, 37, was given a conditional offer to study English at Harris Manchester College, which caters for mature students. These conditional drug company offers have angered AIDS groups. It may be permitted subject to a conditional use permit (meaning you have to meet certain additional criteria before you build or remodel), or it may not be allowed at all. It said that ‘crucially’ students with underestimated grades did ‘not receive the conditional offers that they merit’. Legal sources have expressed mixed views over the true meaning of the company's conditional offer to meet future claims, with some on the union side now extremely sceptical. Mr. Hood said at the time the consortium made their bid too late and it was a conditional offer. A further 20 students have received conditional offers. Those offenders will be offered conditional cautions in future, meaning they will escape prosecution but must agree to co-operate with rehabilitation projects. This conditional offer became known as ‘the pocket,’ as it was placed in Warren Christopher's pocket. When asked about his views on the canal he declined even conditional support, listing numerous hurdles required to be overcome before approval would be considered for federal funding. Although only aged 12 and 13, the children will receive conditional offers of university places in the city which are dependent on their subsequent academic performance. The healthcare professional, who has been offered a conditional post, will begin working in the county from January 2005. He also offered conditional support to the June summit. It was agreed by the meeting for the clerk to proceed with the conditional offer made to rent the Pound for a period of two years with the proviso that the old tin shed could be removed. Richmond council recently gave its conditional support to a soil treatment project in our city. On the other hand, with the organic view of self, the transformational leader puts more value on interdependence, conditional autonomy and meeting social obligations toward others. Essex County Council, which owns the building, has given a conditional offer of financial help, worth about £90,000, to the campaigners. The council has given conditional support to a referendum, but has expressed concern over a number of issues. Synonyms subject to, dependent on, depending on, contingent on, hingeing on, resting on, hanging on, based on, determined by, controlled by, tied to, bound up with contingent, dependent, qualified, with conditions, with conditions attached, with reservations, limited, restrictive, provisional 2Grammar (of a clause, phrase, conjunction, or verb form) expressing a condition. 〔语法〕（从句，词组，连词，动词形式）表示条件的，条件的 Example sentencesExamples God's promise of the Land of Israel to the Jews has its unconditional clause and its conditional clause. Marriage vows don't include a conditional fulfillment clause. As indicated above, this is an argument with conditional clauses all of which are debatable. Somehow that conditional clause seemed to drop away from most of the press reports. And she puts it in a conditional clause, which makes a difference. nounkənˈdɪʃ(ə)n(ə)lkənˈdiSH(ə)n(ə)l Grammar 1Philosophy A conditional clause or conjunction. 〔语法，哲〕条件从句（或连词） Example sentencesExamples Subjunctive conditionals are connected with natural laws. Let us turn now, though, to subjunctive conditionals contextualism. But notice that it is not a conjunction of conditionals of the form ‘If John said that p, then p,’ each with a true antecedent. There are a variety of conditionals in English, each type having a distinct meaning. This should have been a conjunction, not a conditional. 1.1 A statement or sentence containing a conditional clause. 条件句 Example sentencesExamples A particularly clear case of where you need it is in counterfactual conditionals: ‘If you did not sign on, your account could be temporarily suspended.’ Note that the inductive argument the agents run through depends upon the conclusions they each draw from several counterfactual conditionals. But it's my guess that most people take the first two clauses of the song as the protases of a conditional, rather than as rhetorical questions. Recall that a conditional is a sentence of the form if a then c, which we are writing as a c. This possible world account of counterfactual conditionals is widely accepted, and partly for this reason the idiom of possible worlds is now a familiar feature of philosophical discourse. 2The conditional mood of a verb, for example should die in if I should die. 〔语法〕（动词的）条件语气（如if I should die 中的should） Example sentencesExamples Romanian uses an analytic construction for the conditional. The grammar of the lyrics uses what is called the conditional. In this learn Spanish grammar lesson, we review the Spanish conditional tense and how to conjugate Spanish verbs in the conditional.
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