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Definition

watching over students to prevent cheating during a test; or the person doing the watching

More rarely, proctor can reference a supervisor in a school dormitory. Much more rarely, in England a proctor can reference a legal or religious officer.

The proctor caught her cheating.

proctor = person watching over students to prevent cheating during a test

I have to proctor an examination on Monday.
Only the Elder Brother and his proctors are permitted to speak, and the proctors only for one day of every seven.
George R.R. Martin -- A Feast For Crows
They says: "There's several; but it's the Proctors, mainly."
Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The proctor was also a stranger, and did not attempt to communicate with me in any way.
Helen Keller -- Story of My Life
"Hands out where I can see them," the proctor says.
Neal Stephenson -- Snow Crash
"The amiable old Proctor" — who's he?
Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield
He's got a good job workin' at Proctor and Gamble, where his main function, as far as I can tell, is kissin' up to white people.
Sharon M. Draper -- Tears of a Tiger
The day my father died, Stanley Suraweera, now a Proctor at Kegalle, was in Court when a messenger brought him the note: Mervyn has dropped dead.
Michael Ondaatje -- Running in the Family
The man we all awaited was our proctor.
Marcus Luttrell -- Lone Survivor
There were scientific works, too, among which were represented men such as Tyndall, Proctor, and Darwin.
Jack London -- Sea Wolf
THE PROCTOR SHUTS the door and takes his seat.
Sara Gruen -- Water for Elephants
Maybe that's why they sent the old Proctor here — to whip our dear Lady Jessica into line.
Frank Herbert -- Dune
She proposed that Graves replace her in the biology class, and proctor the exam while she, Beasley, took Michael into a separate room and gave him the test verbally.
Michael Lewis -- The Blind Side
James's tongue unloosed with the port, and he told his cousin his life, his prospects, his debts, his troubles at the little-go, and his rows with the proctors, filling rapidly from the bottles before him, and flying from Port to Madeira with joyous activity.
William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair
I was teasing her with this spendthrift suggestion because I knew she was happy and would enjoy being teased a little, though there was always the chance she would accept the idea and take me down to Newark to one of the great first-run movie housesLoew's State or the Branford or Proctor's—that charged twenty-five cents for admission.
Russell Baker -- Growing Up
Read minds and make a killing on the market... (Guild Law forbade speculation or gambling by peepers) Read minds and know the answers to all exam questions... (That was a schoolboy, unaware that Esper Proctors were hired by Examination Boards to prevent that kind of peeper-cheating) Read minds and know what people really think of me... Read minds and know which girls are willing... Read minds and be like a King... At the desk, the receptionist wearily broadcast on the widest TP band: If you can...
Alfred Bester -- The Demolished Man
PROCTOR SUPERIOR: a Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother who is also regional director of a B.G. school.
Frank Herbert -- Dune
Your Bene Gesserit proctors speak of the Kwisatz Haderach, but they cannot begin to guess the many places I have been.
Frank Herbert -- Dune
Just then the proctor informs you that the time is up.
Helen Keller -- Story of My Life

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