proctor
proctor is a 7-letter English word with 8 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One who is employed to manage to affairs of another. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. One who is employed to manage to affairs of another.
- noun. 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.
- noun. An officer employed in admiralty and ecclesiastical causes. He answers to an attorney at common law, or to a solicitor in equity.
- noun. A representative of the clergy in convocation.
- noun. An officer in a university or college whose duty it is to enforce obedience to the laws of the institution.
- transitive verb. To act as a proctor toward; to manage as an attorney or agent.
- noun. someone who supervises (an examination)
- verb. watch over (students taking an exam, to prevent cheating)
Synonyms
Common word forms
proctors, proctoral, proctored, proctoring, proctorize
Words from these letters
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