Antonyms for probation
proʊˈbeɪ ʃənpro·ba·tion

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1. probation

   Antonyms:
   license, nonprobation

   Synonyms:
   essay, examination, test, trial, experiment, proof, criterion, touchstone, ordeal, verification

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1. • Law
   • Liberation
   • Trial Period

Princeton's WordNet

1. probationnoun

   a trial period during which your character and abilities are tested to see whether you are suitable for work or for membership

2. probationnoun

   a trial period during which an offender has time to redeem himself or herself

3. probationnoun

   (law) a way of dealing with offenders without imprisoning them; a defendant found guilty of a crime is released by the court without imprisonment subject to conditions imposed by the court

   "probation is part of the sentencing process"

Editors ContributionRate these antonyms:2.8 / 5 votes

1. tenure

   permanent appointment

   i had recently been tenured and then promoted to full professor

   Submitted by rinat on June 15, 2016  

How to use probation in a sentence?

1. Elie Honig:

   At a minimum, this is overstep by the probation department. Probation's job is to protect the community, protect the probationer, and ensure the probationer doesn't flee. But it's far beyond the role of probation to limit speech in the name of policing whether its subjects are' glamorized' in the public eye.

2. Jeff Hammerschmidt:

   The reality is for a felony probation, a person can do a year in jail. There’s numerous restrictions on the person’s freedom, just because someone gets probation does not mean they got off easy.

3. Eva Longoria:

   Huffman's lawyers argued that the sentencing guidelines in those cases were much higher and reserved for the mastermind of schemes, not mere participants. Prosecutors, meanwhile, had argued that universities and testing companies were the victims of the schemes, and the amount that parents paid should correspond to the penalties' severity.But US Probation and Pretrial Services, which prepares pre-sentence investigation reports for each defendant, has argued overall, that the universities and testing companies suffered no monetary harm, and the price of the parents' bribes is therefore not relevant to any sentences. Actress Felicity Huffman loved ones wrote letters of support to the judgeMacy and other loved ones submitted letters to Judge Indira Talwani on Huffman's behalf, pleading for leniency. Each letter outlined Huffman's loyalty and commitment to the writer — an attempt to show Actress Felicity Huffman role in the admissions scam was an outlier in Actress Felicity Huffman life. Macy also shed some light on the immediate aftermath of Huffman's early morning arrest by the FBI in March.Two days after the arrest, Macy wrote, their eldest daughter was headed for an audition at a school she had her heart set on — one that didn't require SAT scores. But when Actress Felicity Huffman got off the plane, the school emailed Actress Felicity Huffman, formally rescinding its audition invitation because of the scandal. Eva Longoria and other celebrities write letters of support for actress Felicity Huffman ahead of Eva Longoria sentencingMacy wrote Eva Longoria and other celebrities daughter.

4. Shasta County Sheriff Tom Bosenko:

   Matthew has violated his probation. He is a felon in possession of a gun and should be considered armed and dangerous.

5. Meek Mill:

   I got caught up in the system and every time I started to further my life with the music industry... every year or two it was something that brought me back to ground zero, and it was probation.

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