invigilate

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin invigilo, invigilatus.

Pronunciation

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Verb

1. (intransitive) To oversee a test or exam.

   Professor Burns will be invigilating over the final examinations to ensure that the students do not cheat.

Derived terms

• invigilation
• invigilator
• invigilatrix

Translations

oversee an exam

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 監考／监考 (zh) (jiānkǎo), 监考 (zh) (jiānkǎo)

• Danish: teste (da), afprøve
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Finnish: valvoa (fi)
• French: surveiller (fr)
• Russian: следи́ть за экзамену́ющимися (sledítʹ za ekzamenújuščimisja)

See also

• proctor

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) invigilāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of invigilō