Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One appointed to watch students during examination: proctors, examiners, and others are selected for this purpose.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun British someone who watches examination candidates to prevent cheating.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
person whosupervises students during anexamination ; aproctor - noun A
person whosupervises agallery at amuseum .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who watches examination candidates to prevent cheating
Etymologies
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Examples
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A complaint from an "exams invigilator" has caused Carol Ann Duffy's poem "Education for Leisure" to be removed from the U. K.'s GCSE curriculum.
The Invigilator Strikes Roger Sutton 2008
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Words are celebrated in vocabularic feats -- Page 117 alone delights a word-lover with "syzygy," "invigilator" and "fusee."
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A complaint from an "exams invigilator" has caused Carol Ann Duffy's poem "Education for Leisure" to be removed from the U. K.'s GCSE curriculum.
Archive 2008-09-01 Roger Sutton 2008
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Then he mentions my 'syntax': well he could not possibly be at fault in that department - as an invigilator of others he must have meant the capital ‘G’.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Splattered all over the BBC last night, to the extent of using wardrobe key widge Prescott as motormouth invigilator.
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Weirdly though, the next thing I thought of was sitting an exam - As soon as I'm sat down and the invigilator says 'go' I go into the zone and don't emerge for another two hours when the exam ends and I put my glasses back on and remember where I am...
Gordie is Sluggish Gordie 2009
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(Oviously I don't mean like some STASI invigilator.)
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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No one is obliged to come here and spend time writing a reasoned post and then having it strangely disappear into a black hole in space if it doesn't suit the temprament of the invigilator.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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My apologies to the invigilator, who should have met the drill pig in question who would probably prepared him for the rough old world which exists just a few streets away from Old Queen Street.
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(Oviously I don't mean like some STASI invigilator.)
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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