All 20 Uses
probation
in
Atonement, by Ian McEwan
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- But lately, the sister was not casting her mirthless smile in the direction of the probationers, nor speaking to them in the subdued voice that gave them such terrors.†
Chpt 3
- 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.†
Chpt 3
- Every morning the beds were pushed into the center so that the probationers could polish the floor with a heavy bumper that a girl on her own could barely swing from side to side.†
Chpt 3
- The probationers were initiated into the cult of hygiene.†
Chpt 3
- When they were not on their shifts, the probationers were in lessons in their free time, or lectures, or at practical demonstrations or studying alone.†
Chpt 3
- The probationers worked their shifts in the wards, studied three hours a day in their spare time, and slept.†
Chpt 3
- By the time the girls were ready to start their course as probationers, and to work in the wards (they were never to say "on") under Sister Drummond, and to submit to the daily routine "from bedpan to Bovril," their previous lives were becoming indistinct.†
Chpt 3
- She was one of a batch of probationers—there was a new intake every few months—and she had no identity beyond her badge.†
Chpt 3
- 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.†
Chpt 3
- But the principal domain of the junior probationers was the sluice room.†
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- She scrubbed down the vacated lockers, helped wash bed frames in carbolic, swept and polished the floors, ran errands to the dispensary and the almoner at double speed without actually running, was sent with another probationer to help dress a boil in men's general, and covered for Fiona who had to visit the dentist.†
Chpt 3
- For no apparent reason, the probationers were given a half day off, free from study, though they were to remain in uniform.†
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- Probationers moved down the ward with piles of hot-water bottles.†
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- With senior nurses seconded to casualty-receiving hospitals further out in the hospital's sector, and more cases coming in, the qualified nurses gave orders freely, and the probationers of Briony's set were given new responsibilities.†
Chpt 3
- As Briony came up, a probationer with a Primus stove on a trolley was already preparing the fresh solution.†
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- The probationers and the second-year students worked twelve hours without rest.†
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- She and the other probationers of her set were aware of each other only as nurses, not as friends: she barely registered that one of the girls who had helped to move Corporal Maclntyre onto the bedpan was Fiona.†
Chpt 3
- At four-thirty in the morning the probationers were sent to their lodgings to sleep, and told to report back at eleven.
Chpt 3 *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
- The turnover among the dead was high, and for the probationers there was no drama now, only routine: the screens drawn round the padre's bedside murmur, the sheet pulled up, the porters called, the bed stripped and remade.†
Chpt 3
- Marking time rather than changing the subject, she said, "You're a probationer.†
Chpt 3
Definitions:
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(1)
(probation) a period of time when a person is being tested or watched to see if they meet certain expectations or follow rules
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) In archaic literature, probation can be used to mean "proof" or "demonstration."