A period during which a new employee is monitored to assess his/her capability.

plural of pearl oyster

plural of pet shop

(business) Describing an organization or business strategy that stresses the importance of the performance of its individual employees and of its operating policies and systems

at maximum speed / with maximum effort

A peasant blouse.

A woman's blouse, based on traditional European peasant dress, with puffed sleeves and square neckline.

(medicine, urology) A harmless hereditary anatomical variation consisting of small protuberances that may form on the ridge of the glans of the human penis.

(US, law) In United States patent law, the hypothetical individual whose likely knowledge determines whether an improvement on existing technology would be obvious, and therefore not patentable.

(physics) A maximum in the graph of energy loss of a high-energy particle, as it travels through matter, just before it comes to rest.