单词 | proctor |
释义 | proctor n.   1. Brit. an officer (usu. one of two) at certain universities, appointed annually and having mainly disciplinary functions.   2. US a supervisor of students in an examination etc.   3. Law a person managing causes in a court (now chiefly ecclesiastical) that administers civil or canon law.   4. a representative of the clergy in the Church of England convocation. Phrases and idioms Queen's (or King's) Proctor (in the UK) an official who has the right to intervene in probate, divorce, and nullity cases when collusion or the suppression of facts is alleged. Derivatives proctorial adj. proctorship n. Etymology: ME, syncopation of PROCURATOR |
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