Definition of Bursar

1. Noun. The treasurer at a college or university.

Generic synonyms: Financial Officer, Treasurer

Definition of Bursar

1. n. A treasurer, or cash keeper; a purser; as, the bursar of a college, or of a monastery.

Definition of Bursar

1. Noun. the treasurer of a university, college or school. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bursar

1. a college treasurer [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bursar

bursa subtendinea prepatellaris
bursa subtendineae musculi gastrocnemii
bursa suprapatellaris
bursa synovialis
bursa tendinis calcanei
bursa trochanterica musculi glutei maximi
bursa trochanterica musculi glutei minimi
bursae
bursae subtendineae musculi sartorii
bursae trochantericae musculi glutei medii
bursal
bursal abscess
bursal cyst
bursal synovitis
bursalogy
bursar (current term)
bursarial
bursaries
bursars
bursarship
bursarships
bursary
bursas
bursate
burse
bursectomy
burseed
burseeds
burses
bursiculate

Literary usage of Bursar

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Weekly Reporter by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, Great Britain. Privy Council, Great Britain. Supreme Court of Judicature (1891)
"Statute 4, section 1, provides:—"The officers of the college shall be the vice-president, two deans of arts, a bursar or bursars, ..."

2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1901)
"By WALTER GARDINER, MA, FRS, Fellow and bursar of Clare College, Cambridge, and ARTHUR W. HILL, BA, Scholar of King.s College, Cambridge. ..."

3. The New Statistical Account of Scotland by Society for the Benefit of the Sons and Daughters of the Clergy (1845)
"900 merks for a bursar. L.211 Sterling for three bursars. Annuity of 400 merks for four ... L. 140 Sterling for a bursar. 1000 merks for a bursar. ..."

4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Edward Aloysius Pace (1922)
"... secretary general and a bursar general. of the Lazarist Fathers, they being succeeded in assisted by a council of six members, besides a vicariato ..."

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