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  • noun Plural form of probationer.

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Examples

  • Nova #31: ÂÂÂSo, Rich Rider is back in the saddle, the War of Kings is over, he’s got an experienced Nova corpsman, a new headquarters, and his probationers are all learning the ropes of being a Centurion from the new guy.

    Review: Rapid Fire Reviews - Stale Candy Edition! | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009

  • A dozen little black-surpliced 'probationers' sit together in a seat just beneath the choir-boys, and one of them spent his time this evening in trying to pull a loose tooth from its socket.

    A Cathedral Courtship Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

  • Though to an extent, that's because he descended on Coppersblog from nowhere like a sort of sarcastic wildebeest of the old school, slating all and sundry as 'probationers' who 'are wet behind the ears' and advising response officers how to do their jobs.

    The Policeman's Blog 2010

  • Though to an extent, that's because he descended on Coppersblog from nowhere like a sort of sarcastic wildebeest of the old school, slating all and sundry as 'probationers' who 'are wet behind the ears' and advising response officers how to do their jobs.

    The Policeman's Blog 2010

  • Governor Deal, belatedly realizing the law's consequences, has tried to encourage unemployed probationers to take the farm jobs.

    Daniel Altschuler: A Day Without Immigrants: Georgia's Anti-Immigration Law Daniel Altschuler 2011

  • Nathan Deal suggests replacing them with probationers.

    Georgia Immigration Law Faces a Test by July Mike Esterl 2011

  • Georgia's solution to the labor shortage has been to conscript criminal offenders and probationers as field hands.

    Alex Nowrasteh: Immigration is Not Charity Alex Nowrasteh 2011

  • Mr. Deal said he had asked the state's Department of Corrections to work with the Department of Agriculture to identify probationers who might be able to toil in the fields.

    Ex-Cons Floated as Laborers Shalini Ramachandran 2011

  • Indeed, the people who deal with probationers every day - judges and probation officers - have spoken strongly against moving Probation out of the judicial branch.

    Chief Justice Ireland on probation: a poorly-argued case 2011

  • Placing Probation within the executive branch is likely to siphon probation resources into corrections and parole initiatives, at great cost to taxpayers, and to the detriment of probationers.

    Chief Justice Ireland on probation: a poorly-argued case 2011

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