Procurator

Definition: Procurator

Procurator

Noun

1. A person authorized to act for another.

2. (ancient Rome) someone employed by the Roman emperor to manage finance and taxes.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "procurator" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1591. (references)

Synonyms: Procurator

Director

Secretary, secretary of state; Reis Effendi; vicar; (deputy); steward, factor; agent; bailiff, middleman; foreman, clerk of works; landreeve; factotum, major-domo, seneschal, housekeeper, shepherd, croupier; proctor, procurator.

Crosswords: Procurator

Latin (administer, agent, attend to, bailiff, deputy, manage, manager, overseer), Romanian (procurator).

Books

• God and the Procurator (reference)

• Procurator (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Civil Liberties

Georgia

Shortly thereafter the Procurator questioned Father Mkalavishvili and released him on his own recognizance with the understanding that he was not to leave Tbilisi. (references)

Russia

While in the hospital, Glotov claimed that he probably was arrested because of an article in his Viktoriya-Sakha newspaper critical of Deputy Procurator and presidential candidate Vasiliy Kolmogorov. (references)

Russia

In addition the procurator for Moscow's northern administrative circuit has sought actively to ban the Jehovah's Witnesses. (references)

Economic History

Costa Rica

The offices of the Ombudsman, Comptroller General, and Procurator General assert autonomous oversight of the government. (references)

Russia

Judicial--Constitutional Court, Supreme Court, Supreme Court of Arbitration, Office of Procurator General. (references)

Human Rights

Tajikistan

The first 3 months of detention are at the discretion of the local procurator, the second 3 months must be approved at the regional level, and the Procurator General must sanction the remaining time in detention. (references)

Political Rights

Armenia

Fourteen criminal cases related to parliamentary election fraud, involving 16 persons, were under investigation by the Procurator General's office at year's end. (references)

Women

Armenia

According to the Procurator General, 404 women were victims of violence, although it did not specify whether or not the violence was domestic. (references)

Worker Rights

Tajikistan

Cases not resolved between the union and the employer may be brought before the Procurator General, who may investigate and charge the manager of the enterprise with violations of the Labor Code. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "procurator": procurator fiscal. Additional references.

Beginning with "procurator": procurator-fiscal, procurator-general.

Albanian

i pajisur me prokurë (proxy), i ngarkuar (charged, commissioner, fussy, hot, laden, loaded), administrator (administrator, bailiff, bursar, manager). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نائب الجمهورية, ‏نائب (acting, agent, delegate, junior, representative, surrogate, vicar), ‏قائم على السلطة, ‏وكيل (agent, dealer, deputy, junior, mandatary, representative, vicar), ‏النائب العام (attorney general, prosecutor, public prosecutor, solicitor general). (various references)

Bulgarian 

агент (agent, broker, factor, feeler, implement, investigator, minister, nark, plant), пълномощник (agent, assignee, attorney, commissary, deputy, employer, factor, mandatary, mandatory, proxy, vicegerent), прокуратор. (various references)

Czech

zástupce (agent, alternate, deputy, lawyer, proxy, representative, substitute). (various references)

Dutch

procureur-generaal bij de Hoge Raad (Procurator General at the Supreme Court), procureur-generaal (public prosecutor). (various references)

French

procureur général (public prosecutor), procureur (Proctor, prosecutor, public prosecutor), fondé de pouvoir (proxy). (various references)

German

Anwalt (advocate, attorney, attorney at law, barrister, champion, counsel, intercessor, lawyer, solicitor). (various references)

Greek 

πληρεξούσιοσ (attorney, deputy, plenipotentiary, proxy), επίτροποσ (commissary, commissioner, syndic, trustee, vestry man). (various references)

Hebrew 

אפיטרופוס (administrator, custodian, executor, trustee). (various references)

Hungarian

helytartó (governor, lieutenant, locum tenens, resident). (various references)

Italian

procuratore (attorney, procurer, prosecuting attorney). (various references)

Manx

ynnydee (assignee, commissary, locum tenens, proxy, substitute). (various references)

Pig Latin

ocuratorpray

Portuguese

procurador (agent, assignee, attorney, deputy, proctor, proxy, solicitor), representante legal (attorney, holder of power, legal representative), agente (agency, agent, broker, deputy, distributor, factor, g-man, instrument, minion, organ, policeman, they, you). (various references)

Romanian

procurator. (various references)

Russian 

адвокат (advocate, attorney, attorney at law, attorney-at-law, atty, atty attorney, barrister, councel, counsel, counsel for the defense, intercessor, jurist, lawyer, man of law, pleader, solicitor, vakeel, vakil), поверенный (attorney, atty attorney, confidant, man of business). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prokurator (proctor). (various references)

Spanish

procurador (assignees, attorney, empowered, Proctor, solicitor), apoderado (agent, assignee, attorney, attorney in fact, proxy, representative). (various references)

Swedish

prokurator. (various references)

Ukrainian

адвокат (advocate, attorney, barrister, counsellor, counselor, counsels, jurist), прокурор (attorney), прокуратор, повірений (attorney, mandatory, proxy, solicitor). (various references)

Vietnamese 

người thay mặt (deputy, proxy). (various references)

praeses, praeside, praesidem, praesides, praesidi, praesidis, praesidium. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "procurator": procuratorial, procurators. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Procurator" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: procurador, Procuratia, Procuratie, procuratorial, procuratpr. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: corruptor.

-3 letters: carport, corpora, corrupt, curator, outcrop, outroar, proctor, touraco.

-4 letters: captor, carrot, cartop, copout, orator, parrot, raptor, torpor, trocar, turaco, uproar, uproot.

-5 letters: actor, aport, caput, coapt, coopt, copra, court, croup, cruor, crura, pruta, rotor, taroc, troop.

+1 letter: procurators.

+3 letters: procuratorial.