bursar
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Make it payable to the bursar instead of the student, and the tax treatment may be completely different.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 9, 2026
"The strike happened two weeks ago," Sister Maria Wehbeh, the school's bursar, who came to assess the damage, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Apr. 21, 2026
That individual then took on the role of an inexperienced school bursar - an administrator - who pretended to not know what was going on.
From BBC ● May 1, 2025
While her unlikely role as the quiet bursar to anti-immigration organizations has been previously reported, her motivation and engagement in the immigration issue remained largely hidden.
From New York Times ● Aug. 14, 2019
Obinze told her nothing would happen, suggested she speak to the bursar about getting on a payment plan so that she would at least have taken some action.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
English prompted Kay to draft a detailed plan for a device that would produce text and graphics on a display screen, which sprung a budget of $230,000 from PARC’s tight-fisted bursars.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2020
As they prepare to raise their fees again, bursars at some of Britain's top public schools have explained that the cost of complying with Health and Safety regulations is partly to blame.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2010
With money a paramount subject at all colleges this year, pedagogs last week took special interest in the cases of two bad bursars.
From Time Magazine Archive
The university possesses considerable endowments and has several foundations for the assistance of poor students; the “regent’s charity,” for instance, founded by Christian, affords free residence and a small allowance to one hundred bursars.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" by Various
These prices are taken from the Preciosum of Bishop Fleetwood, who took them from the accounts kept by the bursars of convents.
From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
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