provost

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a senior academic administrator; the head of certain colleges

   The provost oversees all academic affairs at the university.

From Old English profost and Old French provost, both from Medieval Latin propositus, an alteration of Latin praepositus ('one placed in charge'), from praeponere ('to place before'), from prae- ('before') + ponere ('to place').

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