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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
probationer
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As a sample of offenders, the course participants have more in common with prisoners than probationers.
▪ He had also demonstrated this commitment by appointing a dually qualified teacher-librarian as a Scale One probationer in charge of the library.
▪ In March 1912 a test was held for probationers.
▪ Lesley, out with a 30-year-old probationer policewoman, had answered a call to a burglary.
▪ Probation officers, it is argued, are concerned with establishing rules for probationers and not inflicting pain on them.
▪ To do so effectively requires a commitment from the teaching force - from headteacher to probationer.
▪ Went right back to the rank of probationer.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Probationer

Probationer \Pro*ba"tion*er\, n.

  1. One who is undergoing probation; one who is on trial; a novice.

    While yet a young probationer, And candidate of heaven.
    --Dryden.

  2. A student in divinity, who, having received certificates of good morals and qualifications from his university, is admitted to several trials by a presbytery, and, on acquitting himself well, is licensed to preach. [Scot.]

Wiktionary
probationer

n. one who is on probation

WordNet
probationer
  1. n. a nurse in training who is undergoing a trial period [syn: student nurse]

  2. someone released on probation or on parole [syn: parolee]

Usage examples of "probationer".

As Briony came up, a probationer with a Primus stove on a trolley was already preparing the fresh solution.

It opened, with its familiar squeak, and a fresh-faced probationer constable came into the room.

All the time, her mind was gnawing away at her concern that a few days earlier a probationer constable had actually been afraid to come into her office.

No one then knew the probationer had uncovered the chieftain of Al Qaeda in Britain.

This compares to a ratio of one probationer per hundred and twenty-four Citizens in Tijuana in general.

He denies having ever been a Probationer and claims that the records on Earth have somehow been fouled up.

She had heard all this, apart from the story of Kolb, at the time of the Carrig affair, when a group of Cyclopean entrepreneurs learned from a failed Corps probationer the location of ZRP Fourteen and its deposits of high-yield radioactives.

Maddalena had to scowl ferociously before he smoothed his features into a pattern more suited to a probationer on official business.

You ought to come to the hospital, and there is a vacancy now for a probationer, if you can take it.

Sister Kate came forward to show the new probationer the way to the dining hall.

Sister Kate that the young probationer might one day be a valuable help to her.

Judge, the probationer here continued to associate with his original co-defendant, a Robert Kirk, of 209 East 105th Street, and I have evidence that Mr.

Let them choose a probationer who, young though he must be, has the making of a seer in him.

The grave conversations with Bolingbroke and Richard Cromwell, the light scenes in London and at Paris, the favour obtained with the Czar of Russia, are all essential to the creation of that mixture of wearied satiety and mournful thought which conducts the Probationer to the lonely spot in which he is destined to learn at once the mystery of his past life and to clear his reason from the doubts that had obscured the future world.

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