Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To watch diligently.
  • To watch students in an examination-room. See invigilator.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun To keep watch.
  • noun British To keep watch over examination candidates to prevent cheating.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb intransitive To oversee a test or exam.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb watch over (students taking an exam, to prevent cheating)

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Examples

  • (nine out of ten) to boycott a compulsory English test for 14-year-olds by refusing to mark, administer, or "invigilate" [` proctor '] them.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 4 1993

  • Just like at Melbourne, there is a group of pensioners who “invigilate”, however it is also a requirement that a “subject expert” be present for the entire time unlike just the first half and hour or so at Melbourne.

    Promoveren: Teaching and learning « The expat numbat: from AU to NL 2010

  • While reading the Times Higher Educational Supplement today I saw that the AUT, the other academic union striking, is advising its members not to set or invigilate exams, with obvious consequences for students.

    Academics on strike Jonathan 2006

  • While reading the Times Higher Educational Supplement today I saw that the AUT, the other academic union striking, is advising its members not to set or invigilate exams, with obvious consequences for students.

    Archive 2006-03-01 Jonathan 2006

  • Today was a long one, wherein I helped to invigilate a term test for about 250 students, and didn't even leave campus until 5 p.m., and I'm tired and really should be in bed by now, but I didn't want today to pass without any comment of its significance.

    free kessel free jlundberg 2008

  • Savante, anon, I had to invigilate an exam for a student whose surname is Hooker!

    Not Daunted by Squidginess Sharon Bakar 2005

  • The Tunisian authorities sometimes give the same impression by hovering around in Internet cafés trying to invigilate what sites people are clicking on.

    At the Desert's Edge Hitchens, Christopher 2007

  • We seem to be configured for less drama, more akin to seedtime than anything one can invigilate.

    Archive 2003-10-01 Dean Francis Alfar 2003

  • We seem to be configured for less drama, more akin to seedtime than anything one can invigilate.

    notes from the peanut gallery Dean Francis Alfar 2003

  • "In any case, the teachers do not invigilate matric exams -- it is an outside arrangement."

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

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  • "The Act should empower the minister to invigilate each council's procedures" p.72 Rethinking Social Justice by Tim Rowse.

    March 27, 2013