"probation" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˌpɹoʊˈbeɪʃən/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-probation.wav [US] Forms: probations [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪʃən Etymology: 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. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*bʰuH-}}, {{uder|en|frm|probation}} Middle French probation, {{uder|en|fro|probacion}} Old French probacion, {{uder|en|la|probatio||a trying, inspection, examination}} Latin probatio (“a trying, inspection, examination”), {{m|la|probare}} probare, {{m|la|probatus||to test, examine}} probatus (“to test, examine”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} probation (countable and uncountable, plural probations)
  1. A period of time when an individual occupies a position only conditionally and may be removed if certain conditions are not met. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-probation-en-noun-js2t1Now Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 41 13 45 1 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 39 16 42 3
  2. (law) A type of sentence where convicted criminals are permitted to continue living in a community but will automatically be returned to jail if they violate certain conditions. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Law Translations (type of sentence): условна присъда (uslovna prisǎda) [feminine] (Bulgarian), 緩刑 (Chinese Mandarin), 缓刑 (huǎnxíng) (Chinese Mandarin), podmíněný trest [masculine] (Czech), podmínka [feminine] (Czech), proefverlof (Dutch), provizora libero (Esperanto), ehdollinen vankeusrangaistus (Finnish), ehdollinen (Finnish), liberté conditionnelle [feminine] (French), Bewährung [feminine] (German), αναστολή υπό επιτήρηση (anastolí ypó epitírisi) [feminine] (Greek), próbaidő (Hungarian), libertà vigilata [feminine] (Italian), percubaan (Malay), poropeihana (Maori), condicional [feminine] (Portuguese), probațiune [feminine] (Romanian), perioadă de probațiune [feminine] (Romanian), uvjetna [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), uvjetna kazna [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), libertad condicional [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-probation-en-noun-c0v6PkGt Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 41 13 45 1 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 39 16 42 3 Topics: law Disambiguation of 'type of sentence': 8 82 7 3
  3. A testing period of time. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-probation-en-noun-OMvEw21h Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 41 13 45 1 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 39 16 42 3
  4. (archaic) The act of testing; proof. Tags: archaic, countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-probation-en-noun-JisRb-E5
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: come on vacation, leave on probation, probationary, probation officer, academic probation Related terms: probate, probe, prove Translations (period of conditional employment or engagement): стаж (staž) [masculine] (Bulgarian), 试用期 (shìyòngqī) (Chinese Mandarin), zkušební doba [feminine] (Czech), proeftijd [masculine] (Dutch), koeaika (Finnish), période d’essai [feminine] (French), Probezeit [feminine] (German), δοκιμασία (dokimasía) [feminine] (Greek), próbaidő (Hungarian), 保護観察 (hogo-kansatsu) (alt: ほごかんさつ) (Japanese), percubaan (Malay), Proowtiet [feminine] (Plautdietsch), staż [masculine] (Polish), okres próbny [masculine] (Polish), contrato de experiência [masculine] (Portuguese), período de experiência [masculine] (Portuguese), perioadă de probă [feminine] (Romanian), испыта́тельный срок (ispytátelʹnyj srok) [masculine] (Russian), periodo de prueba [masculine] (Spanish), praktisk arbetslivsorientering [common-gender] (Swedish), ทดลองงาน (Thai)
Disambiguation of 'period of conditional employment or engagement': 44 11 44 1

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    "English terms with audio links",
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      "word": "come on vacation, leave on probation"
    },
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        "plural"
      ]
    }
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    {
      "word": "probe"
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    {
      "word": "prove"
    }
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        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
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        {
          "text": "You'll be on probation for first six months. After that, if you work out, they'll hire you permanently.",
          "type": "example"
        }
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        "A period of time when an individual occupies a position only conditionally and may be removed if certain conditions are not met."
      ],
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          "period of time"
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          "certain"
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          "condition"
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        "uncountable"
      ]
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        "English terms with usage examples",
        "en:Law"
      ],
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        {
          "text": "He got two years probation for robbery.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A type of sentence where convicted criminals are permitted to continue living in a community but will automatically be returned to jail if they violate certain conditions."
      ],
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          "law#English"
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          "convicted",
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        [
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          "criminal"
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        [
          "permit",
          "permit"
        ],
        [
          "continue",
          "continue"
        ],
        [
          "living",
          "live"
        ],
        [
          "community",
          "community"
        ],
        [
          "automatically",
          "automatically"
        ],
        [
          "return",
          "return"
        ],
        [
          "jail",
          "jail"
        ],
        [
          "violate",
          "violate"
        ],
        [
          "certain",
          "certain"
        ],
        [
          "condition",
          "condition"
        ]
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        "(law) A type of sentence where convicted criminals are permitted to continue living in a community but will automatically be returned to jail if they violate certain conditions."
      ],
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        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "law"
      ]
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    {
      "glosses": [
        "A testing period of time."
      ],
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        [
          "testing",
          "testing"
        ],
        [
          "period of time",
          "period of time"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1661, Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist, page 20",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The act of testing; proof."
      ],
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        [
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          "testing"
        ],
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          "proof",
          "proof"
        ]
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        "(archaic) The act of testing; proof."
      ],
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        "archaic",
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌpɹoʊˈbeɪʃən/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-eɪʃən"
    },
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      "tags": [
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "staž",
      "sense": "period of conditional employment or engagement",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "стаж"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "shìyòngqī",
      "sense": "period of conditional employment or engagement",
      "word": "试用期"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "period of conditional employment or engagement",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "zkušební doba"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "period of conditional employment or engagement",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "proeftijd"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "period of conditional employment or engagement",
      "word": "koeaika"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "period of conditional employment or engagement",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "période d’essai"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "period of conditional employment or engagement",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Probezeit"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "dokimasía",
      "sense": "period of conditional employment or engagement",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "δοκιμασία"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "period of conditional employment or engagement",
      "word": "próbaidő"
    },
    {
      "alt": "ほごかんさつ",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "hogo-kansatsu",
      "sense": "period of conditional employment or engagement",
      "word": "保護観察"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "period of conditional employment or engagement",
      "word": "percubaan"
    },
    {
      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "period of conditional employment or engagement",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Proowtiet"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "period of conditional employment or engagement",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "staż"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "period of conditional employment or engagement",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "okres próbny"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "period of conditional employment or engagement",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "contrato de experiência"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "period of conditional employment or engagement",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "período de experiência"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "period of conditional employment or engagement",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "perioadă de probă"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ispytátelʹnyj srok",
      "sense": "period of conditional employment or engagement",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "испыта́тельный срок"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "period of conditional employment or engagement",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "periodo de prueba"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "period of conditional employment or engagement",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "praktisk arbetslivsorientering"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "sense": "period of conditional employment or engagement",
      "word": "ทดลองงาน"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "uslovna prisǎda",
      "sense": "type of sentence",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "условна присъда"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "type of sentence",
      "word": "緩刑"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "huǎnxíng",
      "sense": "type of sentence",
      "word": "缓刑"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "type of sentence",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "podmíněný trest"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "type of sentence",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "podmínka"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "type of sentence",
      "word": "proefverlof"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "type of sentence",
      "word": "provizora libero"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "type of sentence",
      "word": "ehdollinen vankeusrangaistus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "type of sentence",
      "word": "ehdollinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "type of sentence",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "liberté conditionnelle"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "type of sentence",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Bewährung"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "anastolí ypó epitírisi",
      "sense": "type of sentence",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "αναστολή υπό επιτήρηση"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "type of sentence",
      "word": "próbaidő"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "type of sentence",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "libertà vigilata"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "type of sentence",
      "word": "percubaan"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "type of sentence",
      "word": "poropeihana"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "type of sentence",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "condicional"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "type of sentence",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "probațiune"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "type of sentence",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "perioadă de probațiune"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "type of sentence",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "uvjetna"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "type of sentence",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "uvjetna kazna"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "type of sentence",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "libertad condicional"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "probation"
  ],
  "word": "probation"
}

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