procurator

1 a person authorized to act for another [syn: proxy, placeholder]

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

English

Noun

1. A tax collector.
2. An agent or attorney.

References

See also

• curator
• procure

Latin

Noun

1. manager, overseer, superintendent
2. agent, deputy

Inflection

Procurator may refer to:

In Historical uses

• Promagistrate, an appointed position in the Roman Republic by the Senate, acting in place of a curator
• Roman Procurators of Judaea Province, 44-132 AD
• Procurator (Teutonic Knights), a function in the Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights

In the United Kingdom

• Procurator fiscal, the local public prosecutor in Scotland
• Procurator to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, chief counsel to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
• Procurator General , formal title of the Treasury Solicitor of the UK government

In Communist states

• Public Procurator, a position in current and former communist states, analogous to both detective and public prosecutor
• Procurator (Russia), an office of the Russian Empire

In other uses

• Legal procurator, one of the legal professions in Malta
• Procurator (novel), an alternate history novel by Kirk Mitchell

MC, advocate, agent, alter ego, alternate, amicus curiae, attorney, attorney-at-law, backup, backup man, bailiff, barrister, barrister-at-law, butler, champion, counsel, counselor, counselor-at-law, croupier, curator, custodian, deputy, dummy, emcee, executive officer, exponent, factor, figurehead, friend at court, guardian, housekeeper, intercessor, landreeve, lawyer, legal adviser, legal counselor, legal expert, legal practitioner, legalist, librarian, lieutenant, locum, locum tenens, majordomo, master of ceremonies, mouthpiece, paranymph, pinch hitter, pleader, proctor, proxy, representative, sea lawyer, second in command, secondary, self-styled lawyer, seneschal, solicitor, stand-in, steward, substitute, surrogate, understudy, utility man, vicar, vicar general, vice, vicegerent