provostship

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.