probationer
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- probationership noun
Etymology
Origin of probationer
Example Sentences
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"To let a probationer on a building site with no supervision to do work is an absolute accident waiting to happen."
From BBC • Jan. 31, 2024
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
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
The Inquirer recently reported the story of a probationer who has been sent to jail nine times since 2013, most recently for arriving late to court.
From Slate • Jul. 9, 2018
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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