Usually means: Leaders or heads of institutions.
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  1. rectors: Merriam-Webster
  2. rectors: Collins English Dictionary
  3. rectors: Vocabulary.com
  4. Rector's, Rectors, rector's, rectors, rectors: Wordnik
  5. rectors: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. rectors: Wiktionary
  7. rectors: Dictionary.com
  8. rectors: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Rectors: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Rectors: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Rector)

noun:  In the Anglican Church, a cleric in charge of a parish and who owns the tithes of it.
noun:  In the Roman Catholic Church, a cleric with managerial as well as spiritual responsibility for a church or other institution.
noun:  (Eastern Orthodoxy, uncommon) A priest or bishop in the Orthodox Church who is in charge of a parish or in an administrative leadership position in a theological seminary or academy.
noun:  In a Protestant church, a pastor in charge of a church with administrative and pastoral leadership combined.
noun:  A headmaster or headmistress in various educational institutions, e.g., a university.
noun:  (Scotland) An official in Scottish universities who heads the university court and is elected by and represents the student body.
noun:  (countable) A surname from German.
noun:  (uncountable) A placename, from the surname:
noun:  A city in Clay County, Arkansas, United States.
noun:  A ghost town in Shannon County, Missouri, United States.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States.
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