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provostship

Variant of provost

noun

  1. a superintendent; official in charge
  2. the chief magistrate of a Scottish burgh
  3. Obsolete a jailer
  4. Eccles. the head of a cathedral chapter or principal church
  5. Educ.
    1. the head of any of certain colleges in the British Isles
    2. ☆ in certain American universities, an administrative official dealing chiefly with faculty, curriculum, etc.

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