probationary Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon
    tentative; provisional; provisionary.
    • probationary employees
    • a provisional government
    • just a tentative schedule

WordNet


Pro*ba"tion*a*ry adjective
Definitions
  1. Of or pertaining to probation; serving for trial.
    To consider this life . . . as a probationary state. Paley.

Webster 1913