- a person appointed to keep watch over students at examinations.
- an official charged with various duties, especially with the maintenance of good order.
- to supervise or monitor.
- a member of the teaching staff of any of certain universities having the duties of enforcing discipline
- (in a college or university) a supervisor or monitor who invigilates examinations, enforces discipline, etc
- (formerly) an agent, esp one engaged to conduct another's case in a court
- (formerly) an agent employed to collect tithes
- one of the elected representatives of the clergy in Convocation and the General Synod
- to invigilate (an examination)
