proctor > define
noun
- Someone who supervises (an examination.
- synonyms: monitor
verb
- Watch over (students taking an exam, to prevent cheating. ).
- synonyms: invigilate
by WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (n.) An officer employed in admiralty and ecclesiastical causes. He answers to an attorney at common law or to a solicitor in equity.
- (n.) An officer in a university or college whose duty it is to enforce obedience to the laws of the institution.
- (v.t.) To act as a proctor toward; to manage as an attorney or agent.
- (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.
- (n.) A representative of the clergy in convocation.
- (n.) One who is employed to manage to affairs of another.
by Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary