purser
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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
Megan Allison, the ship’s purser, is filling in as cook the first night.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2016
I’d look up from time to time, studying my fellow passengers and the crew: the captain in the wheelhouse, the purser counting the take.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 31, 2014
Purser The purser, who controlled food and drink onboard, was a robust, strong and muscular man, with good teeth and an old head wound which had healed.
From BBC ● May 30, 2013
A hasty visit to the purser, and an examination of the sailing list, showed her the astonishing truth.
From The Blue Lights A Detective Story by Kummer, Frederic Arnold
“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
The stewards, deckhands, pursers, eager to chatter, reported that for 51 days they had been nursing a party of middle-western ministers to and from the Holy Land.
From Time Magazine Archive
Soon all vessels of the 35,000,000-ton merchant fleet will have medical pursers aboard.
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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