curator

IPA: kjʊrˈeɪtɝ

noun

  • A person who manages, administers or organizes a collection, either independently or employed by a museum, library, archive or zoo.
  • One appointed to act as guardian of the estate of a person not legally competent to manage it, or of an absentee; a trustee.
  • A member of a curatorium, a board for electing university professors, etc.
  • An individual or entity who controls, manages or oversees another.
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Examples of "curator" in Sentences

  • He is the curator of the windmill.
  • The curator of the exhibition was David Bailey.
  • Gail Delashaw is the current curator of the museum.
  • The sale was then blocked at the request of the Curator.
  • The exhibition was curated by the Israel Museum curator Meira Perry.
  • A Nova Scotia science museum curator is writing a book on sea monsters.
  • She then was curator at the Hayward Gallery before coming to the Serpentine.
  • In the morning, the curators would find scratches on the inside of the exhibit.
  • Among the hardest tasks for the art museum curator is to draft wall labels of approximately 100 to 150 words.
  • Eileen Wallace, who is described as the curator rather than author or editor, remains decidedly in the background.
  • One of the neatest things about being the Women Grow Business editor/curator is that our host, Network Solutions, hardly ever asks for anything.
  • But don't the size fool you; here exists a direct correlation between scale and, yes, piety as befits the derivations of the word curator: late Middle English noun, an ecclesiastical pastor, or, more appropriate here, the Latin verb, "to cure".
  • "These additions are just carrying on the tradition of a dictionary that has always sought to be progressive and up to date," OED said in an online statement, describing itself as a word curator that had always "sought primarily to cover the language of its own time."

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