What's the difference between bursar and sizar?

Bursar


Definition:

  • (n.) A treasurer, or cash keeper; a purser; as, the bursar of a college, or of a monastery.
  • (n.) A student to whom a stipend or bursary is paid for his complete or partial support.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The bursar could not have known that Valemont’s activities had come under scrutiny from an inquiry probing an audacious international money-laundering scheme .
  • (2) There was nothing here to trouble the school bursar, who did nothing wrong.
  • (3) His father, the Rev Harry Carpenter, was Warden of Keble College, and Humphrey recalled as a small boy roaming the gothic vastness of the lodgings and college on his tricycle, terrorising the undergraduates and bursar in what he described as "a wonderful Gormenghast existence".
  • (4) Payne says she has had no guidance in how to apply for available money either, and the bursar, Elizabeth Harrex, confirms that there has been no communication from the local authority.
  • (5) A fastidiously shoe-shone testament to the lament that modern British politics doesn't attract the best and the brightest, Duncan Smith would, in a true meritocracy, have come out of a distinctly average stint in the army and taken a position as a bursar of some minor public school clinging desperately to the Sussex cliffs.
  • (6) Brinton, a former Cambridge university bursar, who has moved to Watford, dismisses Harrington as a well-heeled novice ("his literature is hopeless"), a latecomer and – for Muslim voters – executive board chairman of Conservative Friends of Israel.
  • (7) This, says the school's bursar, Dawn Revess, will be “the real community hub, the equivalent of the local village hall.” So far it has hosted a talk by the Met Police commissioner and a couple of commercial conferences.
  • (8) He had led a fairly active life and recently retired (1986) as a bursar from a secondary school.

Sizar


Definition:

  • (n.) One of a body of students in the universities of Cambridge (Eng.) and Dublin, who, having passed a certain examination, are exempted from paying college fees and charges. A sizar corresponded to a servitor at Oxford.

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