Purser
['pɜːsə] or ['pɝsɚ]
Definition
(noun.) an officer aboard a ship who keeps accounts and attends to the passengers' welfare.
Edited by Andrea--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A commissioned officer in the navy who had charge of the provisions, clothing, and public moneys on shipboard; -- now called paymaster.
(n.) A clerk on steam passenger vessels whose duty it is to keep the accounts of the vessels, such as the receipt of freight, tickets, etc.
(n.) Colloquially, any paymaster or cashier.
Checker: Scott
Examples
- Which Pa, having been in the Purser line of life, lies a-bed in a bow-window where he can see the ships sail up and down the river. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The purser was accused of stealing an overcoat from stateroom No. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I think he was a species of purser. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
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