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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- proctour (obsolete)
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English, from a contraction of procurator.
Noun[edit]
proctor (plural proctors)
- (US) A person who supervises students as they take an examination, in the United States at the college/university level; often the department secretary, or a fellow/graduate student.
- (Britain) An official at any of several older universities
- (Britain, law) A legal practitioner in ecclesiastical and some other courts
- (obsolete) One appointed to collect alms for those who could not go out to beg for themselves, such as lepers and the bedridden.
- A procurator or manager for another.
- A representative of the clergy in convocation.
Synonyms[edit]
- (examination supervisor): invigilator
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
person who supervises students as they take an examination
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UK university official
legal practitioner
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.
Verb[edit]
proctor (third-person singular simple present proctors, present participle proctoring, simple past and past participle proctored)
- (US) To function as a proctor.
- (transitive) To manage as an attorney or agent.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Bishop Warburton to this entry?)