Word Finder - probation

definition

A period of time when a person occupies a position only conditionally and may easily be removed for poor performance

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You'll be on probation for first six months. After that, if you work out, they'll hire you permanently.

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A type of sentence where convicted criminals are allowed to continue living in the community but will automatically be sent to jail if they violate certain conditions

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He got two years probation for robbery.

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The act of testing; proof

Three men, during that period of probation, won a prominent place in their country's history, Generals Agustin Gamarra, Felipe Santiago Salaverry, and Andres Santa Cruz.

All who have successfully gone through a triple probation on earth are admitted to share these blessings.

After the customary probation he was ordained priest by the patriarch of Jerusalem.

But 1789 was at hand; the states-general was summoned; Mirabeau's period of probation was over.

By a law of 1909 certain offenders are placed under probation under the supervision of the State Board of Control.

The only academic preferment received by him during the lengthy probation was the post of underlibrarian (1766).

He then entered the government service, and after a period of probation was appointed to a post in the ministry of finance.

New members were received after a half-year's probation, and members who left received their original investment.

No grave note, warning us that the pleasures of this earth are fleeting, that the visible world is but a symbol of the invisible, that human life is a probation for the life beyond, interrupts the tinkling music as of castanets and tripping feet which gives a novel charm to these unique relics of the 13th century.

After serving the usual period of probation he was ordained at Manchester in 1849 and for the next nineteen years travelled in several circuits, including some of the London ones (1858-1864).

The doctrine of conditional immortality taught by Socinianism was accepted by Archbishop Whately, and has been most persistently advocated by Edward White, who "maintains that immortality is a truth, not of reason, but of revelation, a gift of God" bestowed only on believers in Christ; but he admits a continued probation after death for such as have not hardened their hearts by a rejection of Christ.

During this period of probation he had been deprived of his status as a soldier and refused the right to wear uniform, while officers and soldiers were forbidden to give him the military salute; in 1732 he was made colonel in command of the regiment at Neuruppin.

The law recognized that a child should not be treated like a mature malefactor, and provided that there should be no criminal procedure, that the child should not be imprisoned or prosecuted, that his interests should be protected by a probation officer, that he should be discharged unless found dependent, delinquent or truant, and in such case that he should be turned over to the care of an approved individual or charitable society.

There are also an adult probation law and a juvenile court law, the latter applying to every county in the state.

I got two years probation and a £ 400 fine.

Assessment will be made at recruitment followed by a two-year probation.

In January 2008, Sierra was sentenced to rehab for 12 months and given three years probation.

She previously taught criminology at University of Wales, Bangor to criminology undergraduates and trainee probation officers.

All potential recruits serve a two-year probation during which they are assessed for mountaineering competence and the acquisition of specific mountain rescue skills.

Over 300 people a day are expected to visit the justice center in connection with policing, probation or court business.

The court adjourned for the reports, the only definite recommendation being that he should be given probation.

Should a freshman student not earn a 2.00, that student is placed on academic probation.

John Paul starred as trainee probation officer Philip Main, working under the direction of Jim Black (David Davies ).

At this stage he is going to be on a three month probation period, from there we will see.

Working With Victims of Crime Over many years probation in Lancashire has worked to uphold the rights of victims of crime.

At the end of the months ' probation, the Board of the Museum will either approve or decline the application.

We are still barely tolerated, we are still second class, we are still on probation.

A new Small Holdings Act (1907) for England was passed; the Trades Disputes Act (1906) removed the position of trades unions from the controversy excited over the Taff Vale decision; Mr LloydGeorge's Patents Act (1907) and Merchant Shipping Act (1906) were welcomed by the tariff reformers as embodying their own policy; a long-standing debate was closed by the passing of the Deceased Wife's Sister Act (1907); and acts for establishing a public trustee, a court of criminal appeal, a system of probation for juvenile offenders, and a census of production, were passed in 1907.

It was held that the system of Apollinaris was really Docetism (see Docetae), that if the Godhood without constraint swayed the manhood there was no possibility of real human probation or of real advance in Christ's manhood.

Under Labor now, 10,000 probation offices are charged with supervising 250,000 serious offenders.

After that, she will be on probation for three years.

The judicial system also uses drug screening on occasion to test those who are on probation after taking part in some sort of unlawful offense.

Initially she was charged with driving under the influence in September 2006, and received 36 months probation and an order to attend an alcohol education program.

Realizing that she also hadn't attended the alcohol education program, the judge sentenced Paris to 45 days in jail for not following the terms of her probation.

Paris pled guilty to two misdemeanors and was sentenced to probation, community service, a fine, and ordered to complete a drug abuse program.

Early in his life, 50 Cent did time in prison for several different offenses, and was sentenced to probation after jumping into the audience at a concert, irked with being hit by a water bottle.

I knew all about her probation issues, and if I was her, I probably would have left too.

She completed probation and the charges were later dismissed.

She even spent time in jail after violating her probation on a conviction of reckless driving.

The heiress faces probation time as a result.

The 25-year-old was placed on three years of probation, as well as ordered to pay a $390 fine plus penalties.

The probation time, however, could prove to be more restrictive.

While Hilton received three years of probation, she could reduce the term to two years if she completes 40 hours of community service.

No word yet on whether or not she will complete the community service to reduce the probation time.

On May 4, 2007, the socialite, model and celebreality star was sentenced to 45 days in jail for repeatedly driving with a suspended license -- an act that violated the terms of her probation.

Hilton, 26, received a three-year probation in January 2007 after she pleaded no contest to a DUI arrest from 2006.

Mel Gibson received three years probation, and agreed to attend a 90-day alcohol-abuse program and 12 months of Alcoholics Anonymous meetings for a July 2006 DUI arrest.

Originally, Paris Hilton was sentenced to 45 days behind bars after violating probation by driving with a suspended license -- privileges that were suspended as a result of a reckless driving charge from September 2006.

Hilton was unaware that driving would break her probation, so the judge ordered her to serve 45 days in the Los Angeles County Jail.

She was fined $900 and put on two years of informal probation.