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curatorium (plural curatoriums or curatoria)

  1. A board of curators or advisory board, in certain European institutions.
    • 1841, William Howitt, The Student-Life of Germany:
      Their successors are appointed from the curatorium—the office of the curator. Their period of office is for a year.
    • 1909, New South Wales. Public Instruction Dept. Technical Education Branch, John L. Bruce, A Quarter Century of Technical Education in New South Wales:
      In Germany the Continuation School for Girls may be divided into two classes, namely, those under Municipal control, and those established by Unions or "Curatoriums."
    • 1959, International Bureau of Education, Publication, volumes 214-220, page 202:
      In the Ministry of Education there is a department for special education and child welfare, with sections and sub-sections in the curatoriums.
    • 1995, John C. Torpey, Intellectuals, Socialism, and Dissent: The East German Opposition and its Legacy:
      The curatorium's founding statement reiterated the activists' previously expressed desire for a new "all-German" constitution taking the best from both the Basic Law and the Round Table's draft constitution.

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin curatorium.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˌky.raːˈtoː.ri.ʏm/
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  • Hyphenation: cu‧ra‧to‧ri‧um

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curatorium n (plural curatoria)

  1. board of curators