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probation officer
noun
- an officer who investigates and reports on the conduct of offenders who are free on probation.
probation officer
noun
- an officer of a court who supervises offenders placed on probation and assists and befriends them
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Word History and Origins
Origin of probation officer1
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Example Sentences
She also reportedly told her probation officer that she was considering suicide.
He also allegedly said he wanted to kill his probation officer.
The five-time convicted felon has been on the lam since failing to check in with his probation officer in January.
I hugged my mother goodbye and made my way into New York, in order to meet my probation officer.
The probation officer may be a police official; not necessarily a police officer, but under the control of the police.
The probation officer has his hands full, having quite a number of people to visit and report upon daily.
The probation officer, her hands filled with papers, bustled forward and whispered.
So it was that in the midst of the confusion we did not hear the approach of the probation officer and her charge.
In Europe the minister is often made a probation officer by the state, to see that the boy or youth keeps straight.
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