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noun
- a treasurer or business officer, especially of a college or university.
- (in the Middle Ages) a university student.
- Chiefly Scot. a student attending a university on a scholarship.
noun
- an official in charge of the financial management of a school, college, or university
- mainly Scot and NZ a student holding a bursary
“treasurer of a college,” 1580s, from Anglo-Latin burser “treasurer” (13c.), from Medieval Latin bursarius “purse-bearer,” from bursa (see purse (n.)). Related: Bursarial.