probationer
Americannoun
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They got a break when an officer charged with checking in with people on probation recognized a probationer as the suspect caught on video.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2023
During the three-day hearing, the panel was told probationer PC Shearer had been in York with a friend while off-duty on 11 September.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2022
A 1973 law laying out those restoration rules requires the “unconditional discharge of an inmate, of a probationer, or of a parolee.”
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 27, 2021
The average probationer owes at least $2400 in financial obligations.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2020
In the week’s holiday after preliminary training, before the probationer year began, she had stayed with her uncle and aunt in Primrose Hill and had resisted her mother on the telephone.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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