Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person on probation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who is on probation or trial; one who is placed so that he may give proof of certain qualifications for a place or state.
- noun Specifically — A novice.
- noun In the Presbyterian churches in Scotland, one who has been licensed to preach, but who has not been ordained or does not hold a pastoral charge.
- noun In the Meth, Epis. Ch., a candidate for membership received for a specified period on trial before final admission.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who is undergoing probation; one who is on trial; a novice.
- noun Scot. A student in divinity, who, having received certificates of good morals and qualifications from his university, is admitted to several trials by a presbytery, and, on acquitting himself well, is licensed to preach.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun one who is on
probation
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone released on probation or on parole
- noun a nurse in training who is undergoing a trial period
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Examples
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The promise by other household occupants to keep the guns from the probationer is simply unenforceable in any practical sense and would leave a massive loophole available for exploitation by all sorts of violent felons who properly should be prohibited from possessing a firearm.
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He belly flops onto the pavement and the youngest-serving probationer is ordered out of the back of the van to scrape up his bruised, battered and extremely pissed carcass.
Oh How We Laughed……But Not Too Loudly. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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I don’t disagree about the sponsorship argument, but can’t you really read this sort of condition as “probationer is not allowed to live with someone who has guns in the home”?
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I know a serving senior officer who is a member of the BPA who when a probationer was called a probationer, not a student, asked the probationer to join the BPA.
No, Mr Bond….. I expect you to die! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008
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"I have even started calling my probationer as a joke my Padawan (Jedi apprentice)," she said, "although I am not sure he likes that."
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"I have even started calling my probationer as a joke my Padawan (Jedi apprentice)," she said, "although I am not sure he likes that."
unknown title 2009
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I began to wonder how long I had been a 'probationer' in the House of Aselzion?
The Life Everlasting; a reality of romance Marie Corelli 1889
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Surely there is not on the face of the Scottish earth a more unoffending, deferential, conciliatory person than a "probationer," who on Saturdays can be seen at every country junction, bag in hand, on his patient errand of
Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers Ian Maclaren 1878
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Jeremiah Saunderson had remained in the low estate of a "probationer" for twelve years after he left the Divinity Hall, where he was reported so great a scholar that the Professor of Apologetics spoke to him deprecatingly, and the Professor of Dogmatics openly consulted him on obscure writers.
Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers Ian Maclaren 1878
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Jeremiah Saunderson had remained in the low estate of a "probationer" for twelve years after he left the Divinity Hall, where he was reported so great a scholar that the Professor of Apologetics spoke to him deprecatingly, and the Professor of Dogmatics openly consulted him on obscure writers.
Rabbi Saunderson Ian Maclaren 1878
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