Probation

//ˌpɹoʊˈbeɪʃən//

"Probation" in a Sentence (16 examples)

During the probation period of my friend's new job, each month's salary is 3000 RMB; once the probation period has been fulfilled, each month's salary is 3500 RMB.

Tom was sentenced to five days in jail and a year on probation for drunken driving.

The end of my probation period is nearing.

You're on probation.

We're on probation.

I'm on probation.

Tom is still on probation.

Tom is likely to be put on probation.

Tom was sentenced to probation and community service.

Although I almost instinctively felt some resentment that my employer had placed me on probation after my mistake, I soon overcame my feelings of animus towards her and, instead of harbouring a grudge, resolved to treat the entire affair as a necessary learning experience.

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You'll be on probation for first six months. After that, if you work out, they'll hire you permanently.

He got two years probation for robbery.

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.

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.

And then it started like a guilty thing / Upon a fearful summons. I have heard, / The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, / Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat / Awake the god of day; and, at his warning, / Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air / The extravagant and erring spirit hies / To his confine: and of the truth herein / This present object made probation.

Such assessment of others' organizational morality is a crucial aspect of a more general set of probations that are intrinsic to managerial work.

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