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Probation
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- 1 A period of time when a person occupies a position only conditionally and may be removed if certain conditions are not met. countable, uncountable
"You'll be on probation for first six months. After that, if you work out, they'll hire you permanently."
- 2 (law) a way of dealing with offenders without imprisoning them; a defendant found guilty of a crime is released by the court without imprisonment subject to conditions imposed by the court wordnet
- 3 A type of sentence where convicted criminals are permitted to continue living in a community but will automatically be sent to jail if they violate certain conditions. countable, uncountable
"He got two years probation for robbery."
- 4 a trial period during which an offender has time to redeem himself or herself wordnet
- 5 A testing period of time. countable, uncountable
"A probation of long and shameful years must be gone through; each one with the endurance more bitter, suffering yet more intolerable, before the debtor can arrive at that system of reckless evasion which is the last stage of poverty."
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- 6 a trial period during which your character and abilities are tested to see whether you are suitable for work or for membership wordnet
- 7 The act of testing; proof. archaic, countable, uncountable
"And I shall proceed to consider the testimony of Experience, when I shall have first advertis'd You, that if Men were as perfectly rational as 'tis to be wish'd they were, this sensible way of Probation would be as needless as 'tis wont to be imperfect."
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English probacioun, from Middle French probation, from Old French probacion, from Latin probatio (“a trying, inspection, examination”), from probare, past participle probatus (“to test, examine”); see probate, probe, prove.
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