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/proʊbˈeɪʃənər/ Listen

Probationer

noun

A nurse in training who is undergoing a trial period. Synonym: student nurse.

Someone released on probation or on parole. Synonym: parolee.

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"Probationer" Quotes from Famous Books

... admired his blunt honesty and courage. Surrounded by flatterers and self- seekers, he found satisfaction in the company and conversation of one who, setting aside all conventionalisms, saw only in my Lord Bishop a poor fellow-probationer, and addressed him on terms of conscious equality. The indulgence which he extended to him naturally enough provoked many of the inferior clergy, who had been sorely annoyed by the sturdy Dissenter's irreverent ...

— The Complete Works of Whittier - The Standard Library Edition with a linked Index • John Greenleaf Whittier

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... November and December 1870, upon this subject. The writer abundantly vindicates the point and humour of the Scottish tongue. Who can resist, for example, the epithet applied by Meg Merrilies to an unsuccessful probationer for admission to the ministry:—"a sticket stibbler"? Take the sufficiency of Holy Scripture as a pledge for any one's salvation:—"There's eneuch between the brods o' the Testament to save the biggest sinner i' the ...

— Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character • Edward Bannerman Ramsay

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Words linked to "Probationer" : outlaw, malefactor, crook, student nurse, felon, nurse, criminal