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probation
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Word definitions for probation in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Probation in criminal law is a period of supervision over an offender , ordered by a court instead of serving time in prison. In some jurisdictions, the term probation only applies to community sentences ( alternatives to incarceration ), such as suspended ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES probation officer COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN officer ▪ They included the chief constable, chief probation officer , and the chief crown prosecutor. ▪ Scouts will interview him, his coaches, and probably his probation ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a trial period during which your character and abilities are tested to see whether you are suitable for work or for membership a trial period during which an offender has time to redeem himself or herself (law) a way of dealing with offenders without ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A period of time when a person occupies a position only conditionally and may easily be removed for poor performance 2 A type of sentence where convicted criminals are allowed to continue living in the community but will automatically be sent to jail ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "trial, experiment, test," from Old French probacion "proof, evidence" (14c., Modern French probation ) and directly from Latin probationem (nominative probatio ) "approval, assent; a proving, trial, inspection, examination," noun of action ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Probation \Pro*ba"tion\, n. [L. probatio, fr. probare to try, examine, prove: cf. F. probation. See Prove .] The act of proving; also, that which proves anything; proof. [Obs.] When by miracle God dispensed great gifts to the laity, . . . he gave probation ...
Usage examples of probation.
And, for probation, there needs none, their deeds being notour and public, and the most of them such as themselves do avow and boast of.
Another man who had sold items of uniform to get money for schnaps I got released on probation.
From mid-November through the New Year we captured a total of eleven hard felons, eighteen traffic warrantees and three parole and probation absconders.
It still irked Vimes that the little training school in the old lemonade factory was turning out so many coppers who quit the city the moment their probation was up.
Tartarus to the bliss and splendors of Elysium by a dramatic resurrection from burial in the black caverns of probation to admission within the illuminated hall or dome of perfection.
If we sit down and work this out, you could get off with probation, a suspended sentence.
I am not the Tough Tony from Water Street who is about 55 and doing a sixer up the river, I am the Tough Tony who is going on seventeen from Brecker Street and who you got probation for last week after I slash that nosy cop that comes flatfooting into the grocery store where some friends and I are just looking around not knowing it is after hours and that the groceryman has went home.
Attorney Aires let you know that Hardcore was willing to say this whole killing, the entire thing, had been the idea of his probation officer, Nile Eddgar?
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The poor man was no doubt in great measure sincere, but his probation had been insufficient, and his wild Ishmaelitish nature, so far from being overcome, gained in pride and violence through the enthusiasm that was felt for him as a convert.
A two-man tail on Dick Stens, two men to swoop on his slightest probation fuckup.
These Genii, according to our belief and hope, are not altogether reprobate, but are still in the way of probation, and may hereafter be punished or rewarded.
As the great truths of the primitive revelation faded out of the memories of the masses of the People, and wickedness became rife upon the earth, it became necessary to discriminate, to require longer probation and satisfactory tests of the candidates, and by spreading around what at first were rather schools of instruction than mysteries, the veil of secrecy, and the pomp of ceremony, to heighten the opinion of their value and importance.
The faculty has included psychiatrists, probation officers, ministers, paediatricians, educators, psychologists, and an obstetrician, all using the same language, P-A-C.
LaRoque is not an asocially violent personality and that he does not qualify for Probation, Laird said slowly.