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Forgery vs Probation - What's the difference?

forgery | probation |

As nouns the difference between forgery and probation

is that forgery is the act of forging metal into shape while probation is a period of time when a person occupies a position only conditionally and may easily be removed for poor performance.

forgery

Noun

(forgeries)
  • The act of forging metal into shape.
  • :
  • The act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; especially the crime of fraudulently making or altering a writing or signature purporting to be made by another, the false making or material alteration of or addition to a written instrument for the purpose of deceit and fraud.
  • :
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  • *:Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery —with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability:it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.
  • That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised or counterfeited.
  • (lb) An invention, creation.
  • Synonyms

    * counterfeit * fake

    Derived terms

    * forger

    probation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A period of time when a person occupies a position only conditionally and may easily be removed for poor performance
  • You'll be on probation for first six months. After that, if you work out, they'll hire you permanently.
  • A type of sentence where convicted criminals are allowed to continue living in the community but will automatically be sent to jail if they violate certain conditions
  • He got two years probation for robbery.
  • (archaic) The act of testing; proof
  • * 1661 , , page 20,
  • And I shall proceed to consider the testimony of Experience, when I shall have first advertis'd You, that if Men were as perfectly rational as 'tis to be wish'd they were, this sensible way of Probation would be as needless as 'tis wont to be imperfect.
  • * , lines 148-156,
  • And then it started like a guilty thing / Upon a fearful summons. I have heard, / The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, / Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat / Awake the god of day; and, at his warning, / Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air / The extravagant and erring spirit hies / To his confine: and of the truth herein / This present object made probation .

    Derived terms

    * probationary * probation officer * academic probation