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rector

noun

as in schoolmaster

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Recent Examples of rector Sophie D’Amours, rector at Université Laval, adds that the university prioritizes the wellbeing and growth of its employees in part because the hope is for employees to stay long-term and build their careers at ULaval. —

Rachel Rabkin Peachman, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026 Ryan said Sheridan kept other board members in the dark, including the rector at the time of his departure. —

Lexi Lonas Cochran, The Hill, 24 Nov. 2025 When the university rector, church historian Karl Heussi, opposed Frick’s request, the students’ association, already dominated by National Socialist sympathizers, rebelled. —

Literary Hub, 17 Nov. 2025 More than two dozen UVA Health leaders signed a letter to the university's rector and interim president, asking them to give Rosner the permanent position, the organization said in a news release. —

Alexis Kayser, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for rector

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The struggle inspired a young Newcastle schoolmaster named Thomas Spence to develop the world’s first basic income proposal.

— Will Glovinsky, The Conversation, 30 Mar. 2026
His father, Robert, was a Cambridge graduate and a schoolmaster who died in 1879, leaving a modest estate, of which Henry, the eldest of eight children, was an executor.

— Ben Yagoda, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025