proctor

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One might say that a proctor is there to watch you and prevent you from cheating while a student is there to take his or her own exam.

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  1. noun A supervisor especially of an examination or dormitory in a school.
  2. transitive verb To supervise (an examination).

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  • The blueshirts handed me over to a proctor, a not-unkindly old guy they called Chief Levin. —  Asimov'sSF,October-November2007
  • The proctor was also a stranger, and did not attempt to communicate with me in any way The braille worked well enough in the languages, but when it came to geometry and algebra, difficulties arose. —  Story of My Life
  • Our proctor, as was his custom, had extinguished the light precisely on time, ignoring those of us who were still at minor tasks. —  Hobb, Robin - The Soldier Son 01 - Shaman's Crossing (v2.0)
  • One might say that a proctor is there to watch you and prevent you from cheating while a student is there to take his or her own exam. —  The Daily Princetonian, 2009-06-03
  • An NCAA report said online exams were given with no requirement for a proctor, and there was no ready way to keep students from getting the answers to the exams. —  The Money Times - finance news, lifestyle, markets, investment, personal finance, banking, retirement planning
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  1. Middle English procutor, proctour, university officer, manager, from procuratour; see procurator.

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  1. Early modern English also procter, proctour; from Middle English prokture, proketour, proketowre, abbreviation of Old French procurator, from Latin procurator, a manager, agent: see procurator. Cf. proxy, contr. of procuracy.
  2. from proctor, n.
 

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