procurator

1. 1.

   a person authorized to act for another

   Synonymsproxyplaceholder

   Broaderagent
2. 2.

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

   Broaderbureaucrat

   NarrowerPilate

   Rome · antiquity

Other forms of procurator

plural

procurators·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about procurator

What does procurator mean?

procurator means "a person authorized to act for another". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in procurator?

procurator has 4 syllables: pro-cu-ra-tor. The stress falls on "cu".

What is another word for procurator?

Close synonyms include proxy, placeholder. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is procurator a common word?

procurator is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.