REGISTRAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does registrar mean? 

• REGISTRAR (noun)
  The noun REGISTRAR has 3 senses:

1. a person employed to keep a record of the owners of stocks and bonds issued by the company

2. the administrator responsible for student records

3. someone responsible for keeping records

  Familiarity information: REGISTRAR used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REGISTRAR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person employed to keep a record of the owners of stocks and bonds issued by the company

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("registrar" is a kind of...):

employee (a worker who is hired to perform a job)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The administrator responsible for student records

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("registrar" is a kind of...):

academic administrator (an administrator in a college or university)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Someone responsible for keeping records

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

record-keeper; recorder; registrar

Hypernyms ("registrar" is a kind of...):

functionary; official (a worker who holds or is invested with an office)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "registrar"):

rapporteur (a recorder appointed by a committee to prepare reports of the meetings)

 Context examples 

The International Classification of Diseases for Oncology has been used for nearly 25 years as a tool for coding diagnoses of neoplasms in tumor and cancer registrars and in pathology laboratories.

(International Classification of Diseases for Oncology, NCI Thesaurus)

Let us fill up the certificate at once, and I shall take it myself to the registrar and go on to the undertaker.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

That, perhaps, it was a little unreasonable that these registrars in the receipt of profits amounting to eight or nine thousand pounds a year (to say nothing of the profits of the deputy registrars, and clerks of seats), should not be obliged to spend a little of that money, in finding a reasonably safe place for the important documents which all classes of people were compelled to hand over to them, whether they would or no.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

That perhaps it was a little indecent that the principal registrar of all, whose duty it was to find the public, constantly resorting to this place, all needful accommodation, should be an enormous sinecurist in virtue of that post (and might be, besides, a clergyman, a pluralist, the holder of a staff in a cathedral, and what not),—while the public was put to the inconvenience of which we had a specimen every afternoon when the office was busy, and which we knew to be quite monstrous.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I replied, with all due deference to his experience (but with more deference, I am afraid, to his being Dora's father), that perhaps it was a little nonsensical that the Registry of that Court, containing the original wills of all persons leaving effects within the immense province of Canterbury, for three whole centuries, should be an accidental building, never designed for the purpose, leased by the registrars for their Own private emolument, unsafe, not even ascertained to be fire-proof, choked with the important documents it held, and positively, from the roof to the basement, a mercenary speculation of the registrars, who took great fees from the public, and crammed the public's wills away anyhow and anywhere, having no other object than to get rid of them cheaply.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)