EGAVE

curator

About 1.21 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A person who manages, administers or organizes a collection, either independently or employed by a museum, library, archive or zoo.
  2. noun One appointed to act as guardian of the estate of a person not legally competent to manage it, or of an absentee; a trustee.
  3. noun A member of a curatorium, a board for electing university professors, etc.
  4. noun A person or entity who controls, manages, or oversees another.
  5. noun A groundsman who looks after a cricket field.

Similar words

conservator tutor registrar administrator commissioner custodian librarian con receiver guardian

Often followed by

of at and in for to or was is

Word family

curatorial curators curatorship curatorships

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