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probationer

/prəˈbeɪʃənə/

B2CEFR level
55/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister

Law noun

An employee working through an initial trial period before permanent appointment is confirmed.

As a probationer, she could be dismissed on shorter notice if her performance fell short.

Similar: trainee

Topic: Employment law in Legal English

Business noun

An employee serving an initial trial period before being made permanent.

As a probationer, he was reviewed monthly rather than through the annual cycle.

Topic: Human resources in Business English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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