bursar

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: bur=sar

CIDE DICTIONARY

bursar, n. [LL. bursarius, fr. bursa purse. See Burse, and cf. Purser.].

•  A treasurer, or cash keeper; a purser; as, the bursar of a college, or of a monastery.  [1913 Webster]
•  A student to whom a stipend or bursary is paid for his complete or partial support.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

bursar, n.
1 a treasurer, esp. the person in charge of the funds and other property of a college.
2 the holder of a bursary.

Derivative

bursarship n.

Etymology

F boursier or (in sense 1) med.L bursarius f. bursa bag

THESAURUS

bursar

accountant, auditor, bookkeeper, cashier, cashkeeper, chamberlain, compensator, comptroller, controller, curator, defrayer, depositary, depository, financial officer, liquidator, payer, paymaster, purse bearer, purser, ratepayer, receiver, recompenser, remunerator, steward, taxpayer, treasurer, trustee

ROGET THESAURUS

bursar

Treasurer

N treasurer, bursar, bursary, purser, purse bearer, cash keeper, banker, depositary, questor, receiver, steward, trustee, accountant, Accountant General, almoner, liquidator, paymaster, cashier, teller, cambist, money changer, financier, Secretary of the Treasury, Chancellor of the Exchequer, minister of finance.