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purser

[pur-ser] / ˈpɜr sər /
NOUN
treasurer
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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

Then get off to the cabin steward, or to the purser, if you can find him, and ask for three dozen towels.

From A Boy of the Dominion A Tale of Canadian Immigration by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton

“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

A troupe of Yemenite dancers walked ashore with their luggage on their heads, and pursers and stewards from the U.S.S.

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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