- probationary as an adjective:
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probationary
adjective
1 probationary
Under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon:
— Probationary employees.
synonyms: provisional, provisionary, tentative.
Roget 463: experimental, empirical. probative, probatory†, probationary, provisional; analytic, docimastic†; tentative; unverified, unproven, speculative, untested.
Roget 675: essaying etc. v.; experimental etc. 463; tentative, empirical, probationary.
Moby thesaurus: 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.
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