Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to probation; embracing or serving for trial or probation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to probation; serving for trial.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, or subject to
probation
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon
Etymologies
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Examples
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The interesting point in that case is that those teachers were probationary, meaning that they had no due process rights.
John Thompson: 'Reformers' Playing Games With the Truth John Thompson 2011
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The interesting point in that case is that those teachers were probationary, meaning that they had no due process rights.
John Thompson: 'Reformers' Playing Games With the Truth John Thompson 2011
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JOHNSON: New members work their way into the club by serving a kind of probationary period, running errands and sometimes breaking the law.
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Their immortality is a kind of probationary period for eternal life.
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All graduates were also informed that the diplomas they were being awarded were "probationary" in nature; the State apparently allows schools to award dipolmas that have a 30-day probationary period in which the diploma can be rescinded if the school becomes aware of any graduate making what it deems to be derogatory comments about the school online.
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A 17 - to 19-year-old male recruit would have to do 50 sit-ups, 45 push-ups and a 12: 30 run to achieve "probationary" status, the lowest passing grade.
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Their immortality is a kind of probationary period for eternal life.
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Try a "probationary" legalization of marijuana and see how it plays out!
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The best thing we do, probably, is have the candidate eat with "probationary" faculty.
Archive 2009-03-01 Bardiac 2009
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If whatever he says to you implies a glimmer of hope, I hope you can find it in your hearts to recommend he not be fired but rather be put on some kind of probationary watch, for say, six months.
Colleen Turner: An Open Letter to the Rutgers Women's Basketball Team 2008
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