Search for crossword answers and clues

Answer for the clue "Test overseer ", 7 letters:
proctor

Alternative clues for the word proctor

Word definitions for proctor in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Proctor \Proc"tor\, v. t. To act as a proctor toward; to manage as an attorney or agent. --Bp. Warburton.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., contraction of procurator (c.1300) "steward or manager of a household;" also "a provider" (see procurator ). From late 14c. as "one who acts or speaks for another; spokesman, advocate;" early 15c. as "business manager or financial administrator ...

Gazetteer Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 2852 Housing Units (2000): 1246 Land area (2000): 3.025155 sq. miles (7.835114 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 3.025155 sq. miles (7.835114 sq. km) FIPS code: 52630 Located within: Minnesota ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Proctor is the remnant of a lunar crater that is located to the southeast of the prominent crater Tycho . It lies just to the north of the huge walled plain Maginus . To the north is the crater Saussure and to the northwest, just to the east of Tycho, lies ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. as of students taking an exam, to prevent cheating [syn: invigilate ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context US English) 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. 2 (context UK English) An official at any of several ...

Usage examples of proctor.

There are no proctors, no bulldogs, no bursers, no deans, no morning and evening chapel, no quads, no surplices, no caps and gowns.

He wanted to wear the palest blue coat of the Empire Youth, or the light blue bemedaled uniform of a Proctor, or even the rust-colored tunic of a helper.

As Sergeant Cartman had just said, the crosshatch indicating the location of the ELF beacon worn by Chief Proctor Levin had disappeared shortly after he had been spotted by Flight One.

General Court voted in October that the conviction and attainders of George Burroughs, John Proctor, George Jacobs, John Willard, Giles Corey, Martha Corey, Rebecca Nurse, Sarah Good, Elizabeth How, Mary Easty, Sarah Wildes, Abigail Hobbs, Samuel Wardwell, Mary Parker, Martha Carrier, Abigail Faulkner, Anne Foster, Rebecca Eames, Mary Post, Mary Lacey, Mary Bradbury, and Dorcas Hoar be reversed.

Perhaps Proctor Lake was a breeding site, revisited year after year by hypsilophodont families.

All were assembled, and all were on their feet now: Kingmaker, Proctor, Foreman, Pottscamp, Northprophet, Dobowski, Quickcrafter, Haddad, Chezem, Treva, Goldgopher, Chu, Sykes, Fabelo, Dulldoggle, Potter, Landmaster, Salver, Stoimenof, all the high dukes of Astrobe, half a dozen former world presidents, the tall scientists and mind-men, the world designers.

The Big Ones had Thomas up on the carpet the next morning: Kingmaker, Proctor, Foreman, Chezem, Pottseamp, Wot-tle, Northprophet.

One of the tenets of collectivist theory was that individuals should be willing to make sacrifices for the greater good of society, so when the Proletariate decided that Coyote needed the talents of James Alonzo Garcia, he awoke one morning to find all his lines of credit frozen, his travel permits denied, his contacts no longer willing to answer the phone, and a Patriarch and two Proctors waiting in his office with an offer that he could not refuse.

In the living room, Proctor began to overturn furniture, tear paintings from the walls, and smash bibelots, further developing the scenario that would lead the police away from any consideration that the intruder might have been other than a common drug-pumped thug.

Proctor began to overturn furniture, tear paintings from the walls, and smash bibelots, further developing the scenario that would lead the police away from any consideration that the intruder might have been other than a common drug-pumped thug.

His thesis supervisor lost a right hand for stealing it from him when, a year later, Harun followed up with his famous paper on tauon decay and it was realized by the proctors that both brilliant concepts could only have come from the same luminous mind.

The legal side of the transaction was placed in the hands of one Jolly, a proctor at the Chatelet in Paris.

Oxford, the peace of study could for a long time be preserved only by chusing annually one of the Proctors from each side of the Trent.

There are no proctors, no bulldogs, no bursers, no deans, no morning and evening chapel, no quads, no surplices, no caps and gowns.

At Pendergast’s request Proctor, his chauffeur, had delivered a variety of items from the Dakota apartment: a small table, a Tiffany lamp, and an array of medicines, unguents, and French chocolates, along with a stack of obscure books and maps.