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probation
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    She didn't adjust to college freedoms and now must pass academic probation or be expelled in the Fall.
    probation = period of supervision
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    The two fights he had were reported to the bosses and they put him on probation.  (source)
    probation = a period during which someone is watched carefully to assure behavior improves
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    Before Gordon could even hush me, the judge rubbed his temples and asked, "Juvenile probation?"  (source)
    probation = department that tracks people who must meet special conditions to stay out of prison
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    She is a freshman member on probation.  (source)
    probation = a period of testing
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    He summoned the probationer, a young, nervous Eritrean girl.  (source)
    probationer = a person being tried out as a new employee who does not have all the privileges of a regular employee
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    At four-thirty in the morning the probationers were sent to their lodgings to sleep, and told to report back at eleven.  (source)
    probationers = a period during which a new employee is tried out on the job and during which the employee does not have all the privileges of a regular employee
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    Nor does it at all diminish the curiousness of this matter, that to many thousands of our rural boys and young men born along its line, the probationary life of the Grand Canal furnishes the sole transition between quietly reaping in a Christian corn-field, and recklessly ploughing the waters of the most barbaric seas.†  (source)
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    I heard him tell Monique that he got a job, and reports to his probation officer right on time.  (source)
    probation officer = a person who monitors a criminal who does not have to be in prison as long as they demonstrate good behavior and obey special restrictions
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    Then, like so many people, who, perhaps, ought to be issued only a very probational pass to meet trains, he tried to empty his face of all expression that might quite simply, perhaps even beautifully, reveal how he felt about the arriving person.†  (source)
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    I'm on probation, they'll send me away this time.  (source)
    probation = a period during which a criminal does not have to be in prison as long as they demonstrate good behavior and obey special restrictions
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    A young probationer was pulling off the handkerchief.†  (source)
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    confused, Araised, raised, Arase, obliterate, Areared, reared, Armyvestal, martial, Array, plight, state of affairs, Arrayed, situated, Arson, saddle-bow, Askance, casually, Assoiled, absolved, Assotted, infatuated, Assummon, summon, Astonied, amazed, stunned, At, of, by, At-after, after, Attaint, overcome, Aumbries, chests, Avail (at), at an advantage, Avaled, lowered, Avaunt, boast, Aventred, couched, Avised, be advised, take thought, Avision, vision, Avoid, quit, Avoided, got clear off, Avow, vow, Await of (in), in watch for, Awayward, away, Awke, sideways, Bachelors, probationers for knighthood Bain, bath, Barbican, gate-tower, Barget, little ship, Battle, division of an army, Bawdy, di†  (source)
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    Furthermore, please withhold from volunteering for any nonmember activities in the future, as your name has been placed on a probationary list.†  (source)
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Know That it was he, in the times past, which held you So under fortune, which you thought had been Our innocent self. This I made good to you In our last conference, passed in probation with you How you were borne in hand, how crossed, the instruments, Who wrought with them, and all things else that might To half a soul and to a notion crazed Say, "Thus did Banquo."  (source)
probation = demonstration or proof
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