'Probationary' definitions:
Definition of 'probationary'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon; "probationary employees"; "a provisional government"; "just a tentative schedule" [syn: probationary, provisional, provisionary, tentative]
Definition of 'Probationary'
From: GCIDE
- Probationary \Pro*ba"tion*a*ry\, a. Of or pertaining to probation; serving for trial. [1913 Webster]
- To consider this life . . . as a probationary state. --Paley. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'probationary'
From: 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