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
He said the probationer told him she had been stopped by a police officer who said she had been accused of urinating in the shop.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2022
The law laying out those restoration rules requires the “unconditional discharge of an inmate, of a probationer, or of a parolee.”
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 28, 2022
Even for a probationer who truly wants to play by the rules and finish probation, it’s not easy.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 5, 2020
This impression was dispelled early on when a probationer in Briony’s year, a large, kindly, slow-moving girl with a cow’s harmless gaze, met the lacerating force of the ward sister’s fury.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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