probity
probity
Definition
pro·bity (prō′bə tē, präb′ə-)
noun
uprightness in one's dealings; integrity
Etymology: L probitas < probus, good, proper: see probe
probity
Synonyms
probity
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- ensure: Are there systems in place to ensure financial probity?
- demonstrate: Are our officers ' negotiations with operators about concessions well documented and sufficiently transparent for us to demonstrate probity?
- guarantee: Question 1: Are these criteria sufficient to guarantee the probity of those who wish to work within the High Court enforcement industry?
Noun used with modifier
- business: All these initiative are having a major effect on the way directors view business probity.
Adjective modifier
- financial: Are there systems in place to ensure financial probity?
- moral: The only resource the Tibetan government has is its image of moral probity which is indivisible from the perception of the Dalai Lama.
- commercial: For Hofland, commercial probity and religious piety are united, not separate, virtues.
- utmost: The operators of the cameras will operate with the utmost probity at all times.
- fiscal: Fiscal probity is nonexistent when the budget deficit hovers in the double-digits.
- personal: Mr Brown, whose credentials as heir apparent rest on his reputation for economic competence and personal probity, would find it much harder.
Modifies a noun
- issue: There have been no adverse events or probity issues.
- check: There is no link to the NHS payment process, the probity checks or the main database.
- requirement: It was in planning decisions that probity requirements were particularly acute.
Preposition: in
- conduct: To maintain the highest standards of probity in the conduct of our business.
- management: While we appreciate the need to ensure probity in the management of council affairs, the Standards Board needs radical reform.
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