purser
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Etymology
Origin of purser
late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; see origin at purse, -er 1
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The brothers made their professional debut as children, when their father put them on a boat to Detroit to visit an uncle and told the purser the boys would put on a free show.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 30, 2023
The place is run efficiently and with zest by veterans of South African Airways, Theunis Botha, who was a purser, and Denise Potter, who was an air hostess.
From New York Times ● Apr. 11, 2019
I raised it with the purser - the man was moved and spoken to, apparently.
From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2017
Megan Allison, the ship’s purser, is filling in as cook the first night.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2016
After a time he was promoted to a stewardship and later became the purser of a rather important vessel.
From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin
“Those include the fish processing workers, U.S. Coast Guard licensed personnel, refrigeration specialists, marine electricians, fish crews, pursers, cooks and others.”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 18, 2021
The Dubai-based company’s pursers are issued with Thinkpad laptops from Lenovo Group Ltd., the second-biggest maker of personal computers, that convert into tablets operated with a stylus.
From BusinessWeek ● Feb. 16, 2012
Soon all vessels of the 35,000,000-ton merchant fleet will have medical pursers aboard.
From Time Magazine Archive
The stewards, deckhands, pursers, eager to chatter, reported that for 51 days they had been nursing a party of middle-western ministers to and from the Holy Land.
From Time Magazine Archive
Harbormasters, tax farmers, customs sergeants, wool factors, toll collectors, pursers, wine factors; nine of every ten belonged to Littlefinger.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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