bursar

[bur-ser, -sahr]

noun

1. a treasurer or business officer, especially of a college or university.

2. (in the Middle Ages) a university student.

3. Chiefly Scot.,  a student attending a university on a scholarship.

bursar

/ ˈbɜːsə /

noun

1. an official in charge of the financial management of a school, college, or university

2. a student holding a bursary

Other Word Forms

• underbursar noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of bursar¹

1400–50; < Medieval Latin bursārius a purse-keeper, treasurer ( bursa, -ar ² ); replacing late Middle English bouser, variant of bourser < Anglo-French; Old French borsier

Word History and Origins

Origin of bursar¹

C13: from Medieval Latin bursārius keeper of the purse, from bursa purse

Example Sentences

That individual then took on the role of an inexperienced school bursar - an administrator - who pretended to not know what was going on.

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After she graduated from Florida Career College in 2016, she said, she pleaded with the campus director and bursar’s office to release her transcript but was told no.

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A former top director of Howard University’s bursar’s office pleaded guilty Friday to stealing nearly $140,000 from the university.

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Dutch art detective Arthur Brand recovered the ring and it will be handed back on Dec. 4, said Mark Blandford-Baker, home bursar at Magdalen College.

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“We had given up hope of seeing it again,” Mark Blandford-Baker, Magdalen College’s home bursar, told AFP.

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