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probationary
[ proh-bey-shuh-ner-ee ]
adjective
- being or relating to an act, process, or period of testing, as of a person’s character, performance, qualifications, etc.:
All our new hires have probationary status until their three-month review.
- Law.
- relating to probation, a method of dealing with offenders, especially youth guilty of minor crimes or first offenses, by allowing them to go at large under the supervision of a probation officer:
The judge’s options include sending the minor to a probationary camp for juvenile offenders.
- relating to conditional release:
Clients who have completed the probationary period are discharged from the program and released from their prison sentence.
- Education. being or relating to a trial period or condition of students who are being permitted to redeem academic failures, misconduct, etc.:
Remediation plans for each probationary student must be submitted to the department Chair by midterm.
Other Word Forms
- ܲ···پDz·· ܲ···پDz· adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of probationary1
Example Sentences
Thirteen judges who were in a probationary status have filed a class appeal to the U.S.
And he said Trump’s Office of Personnel Management violated the law by ordering the mass firing of probationary employees.
The Forest Service spokesperson said about 2,000 probationary employees — typically new staff and those who were recently promoted, groups that have fewer workplace protections — were fired in February.
“To fire someone who is past their probationary period is hard to do.”
On the night that the Trump administration began firing probationary employees across the federal government, some key CDC flu webpages were taken down.
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