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probation

/proh-bey-shuhn/US // proʊˈbeɪ ʃən //UK // (prəˈbeɪʃən) //

缓刑,试用期,感化,假释

Related Words

trial审判,试验,审理,审判工作apprenticeship学徒制,学徒制度,学徒,学徒期noviciate初学,新手,初学者,新手上路

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of testing.
    • : the testing or trial of a person's conduct, character, qualifications, or the like.
    • : the state or period of such testing or trial.
    • : Law. a method of dealing with offenders, especially young persons guilty of minor crimes or first offenses, by allowing them to go at large under supervision of a probation officer. the state of having been conditionally released.
    • : Education. a trial period or condition of students in certain educational institutions who are being permitted to redeem failures, misconduct, etc.
    • : the testing or trial of a candidate for membership in a religious body or order, for holy orders, etc.
    • : Archaic. proof.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nountrial period
Synonyms
trial审判,试验,审理,审判工作apprenticeship学徒制,学徒制度,学徒,学徒期noviciate初学,新手,初学者,新手上路test period试验期,测试期,测试期间,试用期

Examples

  • The probation applies to her medical license, which could be revoked if she does not follow the terms of the probation.

  • As a condition of her probation, Zandvliet will not be allowed to write any vaccine exemptions – which had become a significant part of her practice in South Park.

  • The Tallahassee Democrat reported McDade reportedly pleaded with a judge for mental health treatment after his arrest on a probation violation.

  • By the end of the fall 2014 semester, I was on academic probation and I had received a final warning for my attendance at my job.

  • The classic example is the COMPAS software used by US judges, probation, and parole officers to rate a person’s risk of re-offending.

  • He plead guilty in a plea deal and was punished only with five years of probation.

  • Matson was sentenced to eight months in prison and served 15 days with one year of probation.

  • Hardy was given a 60-day suspended sentence and put on probation for 18 months.

  • After a couple of months probation to see if you act right, Captain Bilal welcomes you in.

  • Bartiromo was released from prison in July 2010, this time with no probation.

  • I will set a curb upon my impatience afterwards, and go through my period of ah—probation without murmuring.

  • He was still on the probation lists, but I could see that he had the making of a fine cop in him.

  • It was only that they were waiting for the end of the two years of probation, she supposed, and they were nearly over now.

  • There was a time early in her probation when she thought seriously that if it were not Stephen Arnold it should be this.

  • If any one failed to be up to the mark during his year of probation, no one taunted him, nor was he despised.

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