Proctor definition

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A person who supervises or monitors students, as at an examination.
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The definition of a proctor is a person who administers a test and watches over students as they take it, or an officer at a university that is appointed annually to monitor student discipline and handle disciplinary functions.

A person who is hired to watch students take their SAT test in order to make sure they do not cheat and to announce when time is up is an example of a proctor.

A person who receives an annual appointment to a disciplinary position at a college and who oversees student disciplinary hearings on academic misconduct and drinking offenses is an example of a proctor.

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(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.
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(UK) An official at any of several older universities.
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(UK, law) A legal practitioner in ecclesiastical and some other courts.
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(US) To function as a proctor.
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To manage as an attorney or agent.

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(soil science) Pertaining to the Proctor test, a standardized test measuring soil moisture-density, especially for the requirements of construction projects: Proctor density, Proctor value.
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A city in Minnesota.
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A town in Vermont.
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Proctor is to administer a test to students.

When you hand out the SAT test to students, keep time and watch over them to make sure they do not cheat, this is an example of a time when you proctor the test.

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A supervisor especially of an examination or dormitory in a school.
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To supervise (an examination).
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A person employed to manage the affairs of another; agent; attorney.
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To supervise (an academic examination)
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Origin of proctor

  • Middle English procutor, proctour university officer, manager from procuratour procurator

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Proctor Sentence Examples

  • After 1872, in addition to its regular organs, it issued Hungarian translations of several popular scientific English works, as, for instance, Darwin's Origin of Species; Huxley's Lessons in Physiology; Lubbock's Prehistoric Times; Proctor's Other Worlds than Ours; Tyndall's Heat as a Mode of Motion, &c. Versions were also made of Cotta's Geologie der Gegenwart and Helmholtz's Populcire Vorlesungen.

  • Harrison's offensive operations being thus checked, he accomplished nothing that summer except to hold in check Proctor, who (May 1-5) besieged him at Fort Meigs, the American advanced post after the disaster of the river Raisin.

  • Perry's naval victory on the 10th of September 1813, Harrison no longer had to remain on the defensive; he advanced to Detroit, re-occupied the territory surrendered by General William Hull, and on the 5th of October administered a crushing defeat to Proctor at the battle of the Thames.

  • In 1600 he was appointed proctor of his college and catechetical lecturer in the university, though still a layman, and was ordained deacon and priest on the same day, in 1601, while still under the canonical age, by his uncle the primate.

  • Later it bore in succession the names of Town at Proctor's, Town at the Severn, Anne Arundel Town, and finally in 1694, Annapolis, in honour of Princess Anne, who at the time was heir to the throne of Great Britain.

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