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PURSER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does purser mean?
• PURSER (noun)
The noun PURSER has 1 sense:
1. an officer aboard a ship who keeps accounts and attends to the passengers' welfare
Familiarity information: PURSER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An officer aboard a ship who keeps accounts and attends to the passengers' welfare
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("purser" is a kind of...):
officer; ship's officer (a person authorized to serve in a position of authority on a vessel)
Context examples
“Why, the purser couldn’t work it out quicker,” he cried in his delight.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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