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[syn: probationary, provisional, provisionary, tentative]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
probationary
adj 1: 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]