Words starting with provostm
Maybe these words will be useful:
- provost — a person appointed to superintend or preside.
- provost court — a military court convened in occupied territory under military government, usually composed of one officer and empowered to try military personnel and civilians for minor offenses.
- provost guard — a detachment of soldiers assigned to police duties under the provost marshal.
- provostry — the office of a (secular, ecclesiastical, or scholastic) provost
- provost marshal — Army. an officer on the staff of a commander, charged with the maintaining of order and with other police functions within a command.
- provostship — the office of a provost
- provost sergeant — the senior noncommissioned officer of a prison or other confinement facility whose chief duty is the supervision of prisoners and of the military police unit.
- provocative maintenance — [Common ironic mutation of "preventive maintenance"] Actions performed upon a machine at regularly scheduled intervals to ensure that the system remains in a usable state. So called because it is all too often performed by a field servoid who doesn't know what he is doing; such "maintenance" often *induces* problems, or otherwise results in the machine's remaining in an *un*usable state for an indeterminate amount of time. See also scratch monkey.
- provo — a Dutch or German political agitator, especially in the 1960s and 1970s.