Proctor

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A supervisor especially of an examination or dormitory in a school.
  • v. To supervise (an examination).
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. 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.
  • n. An official at any of several older universities
  • n. A legal practitioner in ecclesiastical and some other courts
  • v. To function as a proctor.
  • v. To manage as an attorney or agent.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A person appointed to collect alms for those who could not go out to beg for themselves, as lepers, the bedridden, etc.; hence a beggar.
  • n. An officer employed in admiralty and ecclesiastical causes. He answers to an attorney at common law, or to a solicitor in equity.
  • n. A representative of the clergy in convocation.
  • n. An officer in a university or college whose duty it is to enforce obedience to the laws of the institution.
  • v. To act as a proctor toward; to manage as an attorney or agent.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. One who is employed to manage the affairs of another; a procurator.
  • n. Specifically, a person employed to manage another's cause in a court of civil or ecclesiastical law, as in the court of admiralty or a spiritual court.
  • n. One of the representatives of the clergy in the Convocations of the two provinces of Canterbury and York in the Church of England. They are elected by the cathedral chapters and the clergy of a diocese or an archdeaconry.
  • n. An official in a university or college whose function it is to see that good order is kept. In the universities of Oxford and Cambridge the proctors are two officers chosen from among the masters of arts.
  • n. A keeper of a spital-house; a liar.
  • n. One who collected alms for lepers or others unable to beg in person.
  • To manage as an attorney or pleader.
  • To hector; swagger; bully. Forby, quoted in Halliwell.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. watch over (students taking an exam, to prevent cheating)
  • n. someone who supervises (an examination)
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    keep an eye on    observe    watch    watch over    follow   
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    Doctor    Dr    Dr.    doctor    dr    dr.    procter   
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