probation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English probacioun, from Middle French probation, from Old French probacion, from Latin probatio (“a trying, inspection, examination”), from probare, past participle probatus (“to test, examine”); see probate, probe, prove.
Inflected forms:
form: probations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A period of time when a person occupies a position only conditionally and may be removed if certain conditions are not met.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: You'll be on probation for first six months. After that, if you work out, they'll hire you permanently.
gloss: A type of sentence where convicted criminals are permitted to continue living in a community but will automatically be sent to jail if they violate certain conditions.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He got two years probation for robbery.
gloss: A testing period of time.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A probation of long and shameful years must be gone through; each one with the endurance more bitter, suffering yet more intolerable, before the debtor can arrive at that system of reckless evasion which is the last stage of poverty.
gloss: The act of testing; proof.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: And I shall proceed to consider the testimony of Experience, when I shall have first advertis'd You, that if Men were as perfectly rational as 'tis to be wish'd they were, this sensible way of Probation would be as needless as 'tis wont to be imperfect.
And then it started like a guilty thing / Upon a fearful summons. I have heard, / The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, / Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat / Awake the god of day; and, at his warning, / Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air / The extravagant and erring spirit hies / To his confine: and of the truth herein / This present object made probation.
Such assessment of others' organizational morality is a crucial aspect of a more general set of probations that are intrinsic to managerial work.
Related words: probate
probe
prove
Derived words: academic probation
come on vacation, leave on probation
probational
probationary
probationer
probationist
probation officer
probationship
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: փորձաշրջան
roman: pʻorjašrǰan
lang: Bulgarian
word: стаж
roman: staž
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 试用期
roman: shìyòngqī
lang: Czech
word: zkušební doba
lang: Danish
word: prøvetid
lang: Danish
word: prøveperiode
lang: Dutch
word: proeftijd
lang: Finnish
word: koeaika
lang: French
word: période d'essai
lang: German
word: Probezeit
lang: Greek
word: δοκιμασία
roman: dokimasía
lang: Hungarian
word: próbaidő
lang: Japanese
word: 保護観察
roman: hogo-kansatsu
lang: Malay
word: percubaan
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Proowtiet
lang: Polish
word: staż
lang: Polish
word: okres próbny
lang: Portuguese
word: contrato de experiência
lang: Portuguese
word: período de experiência
lang: Romanian
word: perioadă de probă
lang: Russian
word: испыта́тельный срок
roman: ispytátelʹnyj srok
lang: Spanish
word: periodo de prueba
lang: Swedish
word: praktisk arbetslivsorientering
lang: Thai
word: ทดลองงาน