Definition of proctors Proctors

/pɹɑˈktɚz/ - [prakterz] -

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What does proctors mean?

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Noun Plural: proctors
proctor - someone who supervises (an examination)
		monitor
		supervisor one who supervises or has charge and direction of

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

proctor (n.)
One who is employed to manage to affairs of another.
proctor (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.
proctor (n.)
An officer employed in admiralty and ecclesiastical causes. He answers to an attorney at common law, or to a solicitor in equity.
proctor (n.)
A representative of the clergy in convocation.
proctor (n.)
An officer in a university or college whose duty it is to enforce obedience to the laws of the institution.
proctor (v. t.)
To act as a proctor toward; to manage as an attorney or agent.

proctor
prok′tor, n. a procurator or manager for another: an attorney in the spiritual courts: a representative of the clergy in Convocation: an official in the English universities who attends to the morals of the students and enforces university regulations.—ns. Proc′torage, Proc′torship.—adj. Proctō′rial, pertaining to a proctor: magisterial.—v.t. Proc′torise (slang), in the English universities, to summon before a proctor. [Procurator.]