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probationary

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pro·ba·tion  (pr-bshn)
n.
1. A process or period in which a person's fitness, as for work or membership in a social group, is tested.
2.
a. Law The act of suspending the sentence of a person convicted of a criminal offense and granting that person provisional freedom on the promise of good behavior.
b. A discharge for a person from commitment as an insane person on condition of continued sanity and of being recommitted upon the reappearance of insanity.
3. A trial period in which a student is given time to try to redeem failing grades or bad conduct.
4. The status of a person on probation.

[Middle English probacion, a testing, from Old French probation, from Latin probti, probtin-, from probtus, past participle of probre, to test; see prove.]

pro·bation·al adj.
pro·bation·al·ly adv.
pro·bation·ary adj.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.probationary - under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon; "probationary employees"; "a provisional government"; "just a tentative schedule"
conditional - imposing or depending on or containing a condition; "conditional acceptance of the terms"; "lent conditional support"; "the conditional sale will not be complete until the full purchase price is paid"
Translations
probationary [prəˈbeɪʃnərɪ]
A. ADJde prueba
B. CPD probationary period N (Jur) → período m de libertad condicional (fig) → período m de prueba
probationary [prəˈbeɪʃənəri] adj [period] → d'essai
probationary
adjProbe-; probationary periodProbezeit f; (Jur) → Bewährungsfrist f
probationary [prəˈbeɪʃnrɪ] adj (year, period) → di prova; (teacher, nurse) → in prova (Law) → di libertà vigilata
probationary [prəˈbeɪʃnrɪ] adj (year, period) → di prova; (teacher, nurse) → in prova (Law) → di libertà vigilata


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We discover the latter in changed conditions; instead of a bride with boxes and trunks which others bore, we see her a lonely woman with a basket and a bundle in her own porterage, as at an earlier time when she was no bride; instead of the ample means that were projected by her husband for her comfort through this probationary period, she can produce only a flattened purse.
After a short probationary experience of such low convict employments as lime-burning and road-mending, I was advanced to occupations more in harmony with my education.
They spent much of their abundant leisure on the margin of Maule's well, which was haunted by a kind of snail, evidently a titbit to their palates; and the brackish water itself, however nauseous to the rest of the world, was so greatly esteemed by these fowls, that they might be seen tasting, turning up their heads, and smacking their bills, with precisely the air of wine-bibbers round a probationary cask.
 
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