The Collaborative International Dictionary
Probationary \Pro*ba"tion*a*ry\, a. Of or pertaining to probation; serving for trial.
To consider this life . . . as a probationary state.
--Paley.
Wiktionary
a. Of, pertaining to, or subject to probation
WordNet
adj. under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon; "probationary employees"; "a provisional government"; "just a tentative schedule" [syn: provisional, provisionary, tentative]
Usage examples of "probationary".
This after all was a probationary assignment, and the supervisor had the power to send Ronny Bronston back to the drudgery of his office job at Population Statistics.
He was thoroughly bored with his role as a probationary crook who was about to be paid off for his first trial job and might then, if he found favour in the eyes of Mr Spang, be given regular work with the rest-of the teenage adults who made up the gang.
On the other hand, it is supposable that, possessed with all the memories of this probationary state, blessed by the companionship of our earthly friends, we may aspire together along the interminable gradations of the world to come.
Watson Pretty lived on the edge of Huddersfield town centre, not far from where I did my probationary training.
Traditionally, this meant a lengthy probationary period as a classless hanger-on.
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.
The Traynor Consolidated School Department could offer her $9,200 and a probationary contract.
At the least, I would recommend that the Human Polity be put on probationary status in the Concilium for one Galactic year—.
Working his probationary year in London, he had learned the intricacies of company structure, trading and banking the profits, setting up holding companies, and the value of a discreet Swiss account.
Throughout the long probationary period, they were therefore to have only their natural endowment to see them through the problems they encountered.
Since we have a ten-year probationary period before humans will be allowed to travel to other worlds, except the patterner, that is, no other human will see other planets for at least that long, and she’.
She gets a six-month probationary period before they decide if she keeps her command.