PROCTOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does proctor mean? 

• PROCTOR (noun)
  The noun PROCTOR has 1 sense:

1. someone who supervises (an examination)

  Familiarity information: PROCTOR used as a noun is very rare.

• PROCTOR (verb)
  The verb PROCTOR has 1 sense:

1. watch over (students taking an exam, to prevent cheating)

  Familiarity information: PROCTOR used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROCTOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who supervises (an examination)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

monitor; proctor

Hypernyms ("proctor" is a kind of...):

supervisor (one who supervises or has charge and direction of)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "proctor"):

invigilator (someone who watches examination candidates to prevent cheating)

Derivation:

proctor (watch over (students taking an exam, to prevent cheating))

proctorship (the position of proctor)

• PROCTOR (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they proctor    ... he / she / it proctors   
Past simple: proctored   
Past participle: proctored   
-ing form: proctoring   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Watch over (students taking an exam, to prevent cheating)

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

invigilate; proctor

Hypernyms (to "proctor" is one way to...):

follow; keep an eye on; observe; watch; watch over (follow with the eyes or the mind)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

proctor (someone who supervises (an examination))

 Context examples 

“Well, Trot,” she began, “what do you think of the proctor plan? Or have you not begun to think about it yet?”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“Why, yes,” said I. “She asks me, here, if I think I should like to be a proctor? What do you think of it?”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I felt myself quite a proctor when I read this document aloud with all possible ceremony, and set forth its provisions, any number of times, to those whom they concerned.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

You are to be a proctor.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“What is a proctor, Steerforth?” said I.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“But advocates and proctors are not one and the same?” said I, a little puzzled.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

All this looked tolerably expensive, I thought, and gave me an agreeable notion of a proctor's business.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

To say the truth, we were getting in no very good odour among the tip-top proctors, and were rapidly sliding down to but a doubtful position.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

We articled clerks, as germs of the patrician order of proctors, were treated with so much consideration, that I was almost my own master at all times.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He said it was impossible to conceal the disagreeable fact, that we were chiefly employed by solicitors; but he gave me to understand that they were an inferior race of men, universally looked down upon by all proctors of any pretensions.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)