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proctor - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

English

Noun

proctor (plural proctors)

  • (Canada, US, Philippines) 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; an invigilator.
    • ✤ Synonym: invigilator
  • (UK) An official at any of several older universities.
  • (UK, 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.

Verb

proctor (third-person singular simple present proctors, present participle proctoring, simple past and past participle proctored)

  • (Canada, US, Philippines) to function as a proctor
  • (transitive) to manage as an attorney or agent
    • ✤ All examinations, including self - study examinations and retake examinations, shall be proctored by a representative of the approved sponsor1

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English procatour, procutour, contraction of procuratour; compare proxy. Doublet of procurator and procurer.

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈpɹɒktə(ɹ)/
  • Audio (Southern England): 🔊

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Footnotes

  1. 1817, Illinois Administrative Code: ↩

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