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purser

[pur-ser] / ˈpɜr sər /
NOUN
treasurer
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Davies, originally from Cheshire, began his TV career as an announcer on Southern Television in 1960, having previously spent seven years as a purser for the cruise company Cunard Line.

From BBC ● Feb. 19, 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

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

Began to teach the purser to read from notes with a leaf of music out of some periodical.

From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Maud Howe Elliott

“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

But "Skipper" Williams, never too proud to be a leg man, plods farther along, tracks down friendly captains, pursers, stewards, engineers.

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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