probation

A period of time when a person occupies a position only conditionally and may be removed if certain conditions are not met.countableuncountable

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

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.countableuncountable

• He got two years probation for robbery.

A testing period of time.countableuncountable

• 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.

The act of testing; proof.archaiccountableuncountable

• Such assessment of others' organizational morality is a crucial aspect of a more general set of probations that are intrinsic to managerial work.