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provost

[ US /ˈpɹoʊvoʊst/ ]
[ UK /pɹˈɒvɒst/ ]
NOUN
  1. a high-ranking university administrator

How To Use provost In A Sentence

  • The collegers came from a wide social range, though conditions in College were bad and the boys much neglected until the reforms brought in by Provost Hodgson (1840-53).
  • Even the chief civil authority of the town was deterred from sallying forth by a remembrance of a predecessor in the provostship who had been buried in a stable mixen all but his head, to the detriment of his clothes and the still greater and more lasting hurt to his dignity. Patsy
  • The system of education and discipline pursued has undergone some modifications in recent years -- notably during the provostship of the Rev. Francis Hodgson; but radical defects are still alleged against it. The Grand Old Man
  • The group was welcomed by West Dunbartonshire's Lord Provost Alistair MacDonald, and presented with a silver quaich.
  • In the first year of the new academic plan, 11 proposals from three colleges were funded through the pool managed by the Provost Office.
  • And so the most important of "the streamlike windings of the glorious street" was in part determined by a corrupt bargain between "a vile Whig" (as Hearne calls this hated Provost) and a complaisant mayor. The Charm of Oxford
  • Condoleezza Rice, his national security adviser, is a former provost of Stanford University.
  • A defection from Labour ranks to the Scottish Socialist Party in Renfrewshire a month ago means that Labour can only win votes with the casting vote of the provost.
  • It was brought into the station by the lord provost of Stirling, Colin O'Brien, accompanied by pipers to the tune of ‘Scots Wha Hae’.
  • Our colleges and universities need deans, provosts and presidents who support and promote psychological science.
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