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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

/ ˈ²úɜ˲õÉ™ /

noun

  1. an official in charge of the financial management of a school, college, or university
  2. a student holding a bursary
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of bursar1

1400–50; < Medieval Latin ²ú³Ü°ù²õÄå°ù¾±³Ü²õ a purse-keeper, treasurer ( bursa, -ar 2 ); replacing late Middle English bouser, variant of bourser < Anglo-French; Old French borsier
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of bursar1

C13: from Medieval Latin ²ú³Ü°ù²õÄå°ù¾±³Ü²õ keeper of the purse, from bursa purse
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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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Another monk, David Pearce, the head of the junior school and the then bursar, was jailed in 2009 for eight years – reduced to five on appeal – for sexual offences against five pupils.

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