PROCURATOR

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(ancient Rome) someone employed by the Roman Emperor to manage finance and taxes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("procurator" is a kind of...):

administrative official; bureaucrat (an official of a bureaucracy)

Domain category:

antiquity (the historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe)

Domain region:

capital of Italy; Eternal City; Italian capital; Roma; Rome (capital and largest city of Italy; on the Tiber; seat of the Roman Catholic Church; formerly the capital of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "procurator"):

Pilate; Pontius Pilate (the Roman procurator of Judea who ordered that Jesus be crucified (died in AD 36))

Sense 2

Meaning:

A person authorized to act for another

Synonyms:

placeholder; procurator; proxy