Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. A law enforcement officer who supervises offenders who have been released from incarceration and, often, recommends sentencing in courts of law.
WordNet
n. the officer of the court who supervises probationers
Wikipedia
Parole officers and probation officers play a role in the criminal justice systems by supervising offenders released from incarceration or sentenced to non-custodial sanctions such as community service. In some jurisdictions parole or probation officers are involved in presenting reports on offenders and making sentencing recommendation to courts of law.
Usage examples of "probation officer".
It was the little probation officer sitting with a guy wearing a suit, another one of them, except he didn’.
If they believed that I was such a threat that it was necessary to confiscate my passports, ban me from the internet, prevent me talking to journalists and oblige me to rigidly check in with a probation officer every week until 31 July, how were they planning to control me from 1 August?
He then gave Brownell a year in the County Jail, sentence suspended, and ordered him to report to the county's chief probation officer, Randall Milteer.
Man lies to his probation officer, she violates him, we bond him, and then he don't show up for his hearing.
He sticks with us for half a circuit, by which time I've learnt that he's the type of burglar our probation officer, Lisa Dada, so despises.
All of your activities will have to be presented to your Probation Officer (P.
A letter from her probation officer, warning her that if she failed to com.
To write a letter to her dear mother and her dear probation officer and her dear ex et cetera.
Perhaps the Bull's mother, if such a person can be imagined, was assaulted by a black probation officer who was on his way to give evidence for the defence.