Probationary

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Probationary \Pro*ba"tion*a*ry\, a.
     Of or pertaining to probation; serving for trial.
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           To consider this life . . . as a probationary state.
                                                    --Paley.


     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  probationary
       adj : under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon;
             "probationary employees"; "a provisional government";
             "just a tentative schedule" [syn: {provisional}, {provisionary},
              {tentative}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  19 Moby Thesaurus words for "probationary":
     cut-and-try, empirical, experimental, heuristic, hit-or-miss,
     on probation, pilot, probational, probative, probatory, proving,
     provisional, tentative, test, testing, trial, trial-and-error,
     trying, verificatory