Word Meanings - PROCURACY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The office or act of a proctor or procurator; management for another. 2. Authority to act for another; a proxy.

Related words: (words related to PROCURACY)

• PROCURATORSHIP
  The office or term of a procurator. Bp. Pearson.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• OFFICEHOLDER
  An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.
• PROCURATORY
  Tending to, or authorizing, procuration.
• PROCTOR
  One who is employed to manage to affairs of another. Specifically: A person appointed to collect alms for those who could not go out to beg for themselves, as lepers, the bedridden, etc.; hence a beggar. Nares. An officer employed in admiralty
• PROCTORAGE
  Management by a proctor, or as by a proctor; hence, control; superintendence; -- in contempt. "The fogging proctorage of money." Milton.
• PROCTORIAL
  Of or pertaining to a proctor, esp. an academic proctor; magisterial.
• OFFICE WIRE
  Copper wire with a strong but light insulation, used in wiring houses, etc.
• AUTHORITY
  1. Legal or rightful power; a right to command or to act; power exercised buy a person in virtue of his office or trust; dominion; jurisdiction; authorization; as, the authority of a prince over subjects, and of parents over children; the authority
• PROCURATOR
  One who manages another's affairs, either generally or in a special matter; an agent; a proctor. Chaucer. Shak.
• PROCTORICAL
  Proctorial.
• ANOTHER
  1. One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect. Another yet! -- a seventh! I 'll see no more. Shak. Would serve to scale another Hero's tower. Shak. 2. Not the same; different. He winks,
• OFFICER
  Specifically, a commissioned officer, in distinction from a warrant officer. Field officer, General officer, etc. See under Field, General. etc. -- Officer of the day , the officer who, on a given day, has charge for that day of the quard,
• PROCURATORIAL
  Of or pertaining to a procurator, or proctor; made by a proctor. Ayliffe.
• ANOTHER-GAINES
  Of another kind. Sir P. Sidney.
• OFFICE
  The apartments or outhouses in which the domestics discharge the duties attached to the service of a house, as kitchens, pantries, stables, etc. As for the offices, let them stand at distance. Bacon. (more info) 1. That which a person does, either
• MANAGEMENT
  1. The act or art of managing; the manner of treating, directing, carrying on, or using, for a purpose; conduct; administration; guidance; control; as, the management of a family or of a farm; the management of state affairs. "The management of
• PROXY
  The written appointment of a proctor in suits in the ecclesiastical courts. Burrill. (more info) 1. The agency for another who acts through the agent; authority to act for another, esp. to vote in a legislative or corporate capacity. I have no
• PROCTORSHIP
  The office or dignity of a proctor; also, the term of his office. Clarendon.
• PROXYSHIP
  The office or agency of a proxy.
• POST OFFICE
  See POST
• BOOKING OFFICE
  1. An office where passengers, baggage, etc., are registered for conveyance, as by railway or steamship. 2. An office where passage tickets are sold.
• CROWN OFFICE
  The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases. Burrill.
• PROPROCTOR
  A assistant proctor. Hook.
• MISMANAGEMENT
  Wrong or bad management; as, he failed through mismagement.
• SUBOFFICER
  An under or subordinate officer.
• UNDEROFFICER
  A subordinate officer.