Usually means: Supervisor for exams, ensures integrity.
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  1. proctor: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. proctor: Merriam-Webster
  3. proctor: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. proctor: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. proctor: Collins English Dictionary
  6. proctor: Vocabulary.com
  7. Proctor, proctor: Wordnik
  8. proctor: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Proctor, proctor: Wiktionary
  10. proctor: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. proctor: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. proctor: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Proctor, proctor: Dictionary.com
  14. proctor: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Proctor (Martian crater), Proctor (disambiguation), Proctor (lunar crater), Proctor (surname), Proctor: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Proctor: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. proctor: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. proctor: Rhymezone
  19. Proctor: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. proctor: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. proctor: FreeDictionary.org
  22. proctor: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. proctor: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. proctor: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. PROCTOR: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. proctor: Law.com Dictionary
  2. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  5. proctor: Legal dictionary

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  1. proctor: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. PROCTOR, PROCTOR, PROCTOR: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  2. PROCTOR: Acronym Finder

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. proctor: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (Canada, US, Philippines) 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; an invigilator.
noun:  (UK) An official at any of several older universities.
noun:  (British, law) A legal practitioner in ecclesiastical and some other courts.
noun:  (obsolete) One appointed to collect alms for those who could not go out to beg for themselves, such as lepers and the bedridden.
noun:  A procurator or manager for another.
noun:  A representative of the clergy in convocation.
verb:  (Canada, US, Philippines) to function as a proctor
verb:  (transitive) to manage as an attorney or agent
noun:  A surname originating as an occupation.
noun:  A number of places in the United States:
noun:  An unincorporated community in Lee County, Kentucky.
noun:  A city in Saint Louis County, Minnesota, named after J. Proctor Knott.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Morgan County, Missouri.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Plunketts Creek Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania.
noun:  A census-designated place in Adair County, Oklahoma.
noun:  A census-designated place in Comanche County, Texas.
noun:  A town and census-designated place therein, in Rutland County, Vermont.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Wetzel County, West Virginia.
adjective:  (soil science) Pertaining to the Proctor test, a standardized test measuring soil moisture-density, especially for the requirements of construction projects.

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