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 Words From

• under·bursar 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

To add to the embarrassment, several of the few students enrolled failed to pay their fees, and the Bursar could not collect them.

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To the board of every Bursar, other than those in the classes of Theology and Medicine, twenty pounds.

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The Bursar thought that Mr. Ravenshoe's plea of sobriety should be taken in extenuation.

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In 1846 he was appointed Tutor of his College, and in 1848 was appointed Bursar.

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The best of them is the most recent addition, a fine tower put up in 1880 to the memory of a former Bursar, Mr. Robinson.

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