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What is a probation?

What is a probation? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A period of time when a person occupies a position only conditionally and may easily be removed for poor performance
  2. 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
  3. (archaic) The act of testing; proof
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It is therefore of concern he admits to consuming a large amount of alcohol and to being extremely abusive to probation staff on release.
One employee was suspended without pay for two weeks and another was put on three-month probation.
A mechanism for reintegration was in place in the form of court-ordered probation.
Unlike most offenders, they will not be paying a visit to their probation officer once every three weeks.
An egg thief who raided bird's nests in Orkney has been placed on probation and had his car confiscated.
Defendants, witnesses, solicitors, police officers and probation officers will then have to travel 25 miles across Salisbury Plain.

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