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}]
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]
19 Moby Thesaurus words for "probationary": 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