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Meanings of invigilate in English

Spanish
vigilar

Watch over (students taking an exam, to prevent cheating)

        vigilar
        Synonyms
        Examples for "proctor"
        Examples for "proctor"
        1
        It attracted the attention of several of the students-andof a proctor.
        The Plastic Age
        2
        There was a strange proctor in office this year to be considered.
        Jane Allen, Junior
        3
        Then it's back out to the lobby, followed again by the proctor.
        Snow Crash
        4
        The proctor sailed across from the platform and landed on the scaffolding.
        Zero Point
        5
        Their proctor will also be the dive supervisor for their last dive.
        The warrior elite: the forging of seal class 228
        Usage of invigilate in English
        1
        It sets extra exams, which schools must invigilate.
        The Guardian
        2
        Security cameras hang over doorways even in the poorest settlements and invigilate worshippers on prayer mats in mosques.
        The economist
        3
        They have got to take steps to invigilate it and to take it down where they can, Johnson said.
        The Guardian
        4
        And I said, 'But I have to go because it's been arranged and the Reverend Peters is going to invigilate.'
        The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
        5
        He must hurry, because he had to get lunch and be back to invigilate at an examination by two o'clock.
        Lucky Jim
        6
        Barroso said some EU governments, which he did not name, were still resisting even the idea of colleges of national supervisors to invigilate insurance companies.
        Reuters
        7
        Santa School is personally invigilated by the MD of the Ministry Of Fun himself, James Lovell.
        The Guardian
        8
        Three teachers invigilated, their grim expressions speaking volumes about the social and political shift in ideology, otherwise known as radical change.
        How the soldier repairs the gramophone
        9
        "I suppose he has got to invigilate at some horrid examination or something," she said, but she did not really suppose anything of the kind.
        Driftwood Spars / The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Cert...
        Translations for invigilate
        Spanish
        vigilar
        Invigilate through the time