Other forms: proctors
A proctor is somebody who supervises an examination. The proctor called time, an exam proctor, proctor the test.
It is American in this sense; British universities say invigilator. Remote proctoring, where software watches a candidate through a webcam, spread quickly and has been challenged over privacy and over how badly it works on some faces.
1nounproctorSomebody who supervises an examination.
“The proctor collected our phones before the exam began.”
proctor is a supervisor.
Also accepted in games: invigilator
A contraction of procurator, from Latin procurare, to manage. Proxy is the same word contracted differently.
Middle English
procatour
English, today
proctor
Middle English procatour, procutour, contraction of procuratour; compare proxy. a doublet of procurator and procurer.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA