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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
Word History and Origins
Origin of probation officer1
Example Sentences
Because of covid restrictions, she could meet with her public defender, probation officer and advocate only by phone.
A onetime probation officer, Primeau first made his name in 1979 by recovering audio for the FBI in a sting operation against Detroit judges.
Martin said he “wanted to do something with law enforcement,” perhaps become a probation officer or work in corrections.
He is now free to choose where and how he lives, without having to get approval from a probation officer.
Weigle agreed, saying he feared that if he sent a probation officer to Calhoun’s house the lawyer would consider it a salvo from the “deep state” and respond with violence.
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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