(British) keeping watch over examination candidates to prevent cheating

Usage examples of invigilation.

Time is short, and the Invigilation requires your cooperation in its enquiries.

The interrogation of the forces of darkness – a ritual rarely mandated by the Invigilation – could only be entrusted to one who was beyond reproach.

Your tuition was given to you without fee because the treasury of the Ministry of Lost Souls, the Invigilation, paid for the upkeep of the University.

The term of reference was that you should in return render to the Invigilation such services as could reasonably be required of you while you study within the said institution.

The interrogation of the forces of darkness -- a ritual rarely mandated by the Invigilation -- could only be entrusted to one who was beyond reproach.

I hereby apprentice you, as is my duty and privilege -- to Anya of Tigre, mendicant practitioner of the final arts and agent of the Invigilation -- on pain of violation of your contract!

He could well imagine Zevon's response to being summoned by the Invigilation, and it would not be pleasant.

By the time I had finished, my period of invigilation was over, and I just had time to add a brief note to the effect that I hoped we would meet again before we’d grown too old to recognize each other or the trap had swallowed us.

Up the Goulet lay the reefs of the Little Girls, with their outlier, Pollux Reef, and beyond the Little Girls, in the outer roadstead, lay the French navy at anchor, forced to tolerate this constant invigilation because of the superior might of the Channel Fleet waiting outside, just over the horizon.