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bursar

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bur⋅sar

  [bur-ser, -sahr]
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–noun
1. a treasurer or business officer, esp. of a college or university.
2. (in the Middle Ages) a university student.
3. Chiefly Scot. a student attending a university on a scholarship.
Origin:
1400–50; < ML bursārius a purse-keeper, treasurer (see bursa, -ar 2 ); r. late ME bouser, var. of bourser < AF; OF borsier
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bur·sar   (bûr'sər, -sär')   
n.  An official in charge of funds, as at a college or university; a treasurer.

[Middle English burser, from Medieval Latin bursārius, from Late Latin bursa, purse; see bursa.]
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bursar 
"treasurer of a college," 1587, from Anglo-L. burser "treasurer," from M.L. bursarius "purse-bearer," from bursa (see purse).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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