proproctor

English

Etymology

From pro- +‎ proctor.

Noun

proproctor (plural proproctors)

1. (UK) An assistant proctor in a university.
   • 1962, John Percy Vyvian Dacre Balsdon, Oxford Life:

     So it is the University that must go into action in defence of peace: and the University, its full strength mustered, consists of two Proctors, four Proproctors and eight or ten University police

References

“proproctor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.