bursar
a treasurer or business officer, especially of a college or university.
(in the Middle Ages) a university student.
Chiefly Scot. a student attending a university on a scholarship.
Origin of bursar
1Other words from bursar
- un·der·bur·sar, noun
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How to use bursar in a sentence
To add to the embarrassment, several of the few students enrolled failed to pay their fees, and the bursar could not collect them.
McGill and its Story, 1821-1921 | Cyrus MacmillanTo the board of every bursar, other than those in the classes of Theology and Medicine, twenty pounds.
The bursar thought that Mr. Ravenshoe's plea of sobriety should be taken in extenuation.
Ravenshoe | Henry KingsleyIn 1846 he was appointed Tutor of his College, and in 1848 was appointed bursar.
The Canadian Portrait Gallery Volume 3 | John Charles DentThe best of them is the most recent addition, a fine tower put up in 1880 to the memory of a former bursar, Mr. Robinson.
Oxford | Robert Peel and H. C. Minchin
British Dictionary definitions for bursar
/ (ˈbɜːsə) /
an official in charge of the financial management of a school, college, or university
mainly Scot and NZ a student holding a bursary
Origin of bursar
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