probationer
Example Sentences
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"To let a probationer on a building site with no supervision to do work is an absolute accident waiting to happen."
From BBC • Jan. 31, 2024
They got a break when an officer charged with checking in with people on probation recognized a probationer as the suspect caught on video.
From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2023
A 1973 law laying out those restoration rules requires the “unconditional discharge of an inmate, of a probationer, or of a parolee.”
From Seattle Times • Aug. 27, 2021
Even for a probationer who truly wants to play by the rules and finish probation, it’s not easy.
From The Guardian • Mar. 5, 2020
In the week’s holiday after preliminary training, before the probationer year began, she had stayed with her uncle and aunt in Primrose Hill and had resisted her mother on the telephone.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
