What's the difference between bursar and treasurer?

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.

Treasurer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who has the care of a treasure or treasure or treasury; an officer who receives the public money arising from taxes and duties, or other sources of revenue, takes charge of the same, and disburses it upon orders made by the proper authority; one who has charge of collected funds; as, the treasurer of a society or corporation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is a tragedy that he abandoned Iraq, sacrificing the gains secured by American blood and treasure.
  • (2) Nicholas Shaxson – the author of Treasure Islands, a book about the world of tax evasion – described the demands as "incredibly powerful".
  • (3) After a brief review of the range of monitoring accessories, the author considers the problem of their hospital standardization (various needs of the different hospital units, diversity of the monitors, existence of central purchasing departments, pressure from the treasurer's office).
  • (4) The previous day in the Commons, Miliband had accused former Conservative party treasurer Lord Fink of tax avoidance and talked about “dodgy” donors.
  • (5) The treasurer, Joe Hockey, defended the government's planned changes to higher education during an appearance on the ABC's Q&A program on Monday night.
  • (6) That he was able to keep his secret treasures here, not in some remote corner of the globe but in the centre of the city that gave birth to the National Socialist movement, is both extraordinary and not short of a certain dark irony.
  • (7) The New South Wales and South Australian premiers have joined forces to tell treasurer Scott Morrison that finding extra federal funding to head off a looming hospitals and schools funding “cliff” is a “non negotiable” condition of their support for increasing the GST.
  • (8) It’s especially not appropriate for a citizen seeking election to this house or selection to the ministry canvassing for money and support to seek to damage individuals’ reputation by commencing court actions for what could only be an improper purpose.” Palmer said the former treasurer, Joe Hockey, had been staying at the resort at the time and “walked past the table” where they were sitting and “merely sat down to have a coffee”.
  • (9) Frankly, it is rather a shame that he does not fall under the Treasure Act (to do so he would have to be over 300 years old and be composed of more than 10% gold or silver).
  • (10) Darth Vader is no match for Treasure Island, Guardian 19 November 1983 In the early years, Stevenson did not consider Treasure Island one of his great achievements, perhaps because he did not have to work hard over it.
  • (11) A treasure trove of more than £1.7bn-worth of old masters paintings, Greek, Roman and Egyptian antiquities, ancient weapons and prehistoric archaeological items were allowed to be sold overseas in the year to May 2013, according to official statistics issued by the government .
  • (12) Turning on the community suggests they are spooked by the growing support to protect our national treasures.
  • (13) Treasurer Wayne Swan says largely because we have a fixed price in Australia's carbon pricing scheme to allow certainty for businesses having to make the transition.
  • (14) It is reluctantly forced to strip the UK of its treasured AAA rating when the government's growth forecasts have faced repeated downgrades and the upturn is out of sight.
  • (15) But if the coalition does keep together for four more years, then that's four more years of Lib Dem withering and four more years to gather a treasure chest to reward Tory voters.
  • (16) "The [Inupiat] people who have thrived off the Arctic waters for thousands of years and those who treasure the Arctic's unique wildlife will continue to demand that the Obama administration not allow Shell to move forward."
  • (17) The Treasurer Joe Hockey walks to a doorstop interview with the media this morning at the Ministerial entrance to Parliament House in Canberra, Tuesday 13th May 2013 Photograph: Mike Bowers, Guardian Australia There is a certain commonality associated with the annual rituals of the treasurer.
  • (18) Ambling along Long Beach, south of Tofino, exploring treasures in tidal pools can easily absorb days.
  • (19) Your commitment, passion and, crucially, skills will be treasured elsewhere.
  • (20) Back when he was a professor of economics at Australian National University, Andrew Leigh (now the federal shadow assistant treasurer) co-authored a study that found Chinese applicants must submit 68% more applications to get an interview than those with Anglo-Saxon names.