OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 9628

provost

/ˈpɹɒvəst/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
preboste
One placed in charge: a head, a chief
alcalde
One placed in charge: a head, a chief
The repairs were completed in the summer of last year, more than ten months after the line had been closed, and the branch was re-opened on June 29, when Mr. T. F. Cameron, Chief R…
preboste
A senior deputy, a superintendent
preboste • rector
A senior deputy, a superintendent
The princess, already a serious and diligent child, was given lessons on constitutional matters by Sir Henry Marten, the provost of Eton, and became aware even then that she should…
The provost of the University of Massachusetts has reversed a decision by faculty personnel committees not to renew the contracts of two professors engaged in sex research.
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