(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Philip Purser, the Sunday Telegraph's long-serving TV critic, wrote in his 1992 autobiography, Done Viewing, that "the gravest disservice that Dallas did television was to create an appetite for flavours so strong and artificial that the palate was ruined for more subtle and natural tastes".
(2) Philip Purser writes: In television, Ian Richardson excelled in bringing unsympathetic characters to life.
(3) (Borehamwood, Hertfordshire) Professor David Anthony Purser.
(4) His grandfather was a guard on the Flying Scotsman and his father started as a purser on the Clyde steamers, later rising to white-collar status in British Rail's property division.
(5) I am Egyptian,” said Islam, the flight’s purser.
(6) Our results show that the Sharp-Purser test is a useful clinical examination to diagnose atlantoaxial instability.
(7) He's really developed socially," said the deputy head, Ashley Purser.
(8) Champagne, sir?” one of the purser’s colleagues asked Greste shortly before leaving UAE, holding out a little plastic glass of bubbly.
(9) We assessed the validity of the Sharp-Purser test in 123 outpatients with rheumatoid arthritis.
(10) Sharp and Purser have described a test for the clinical assessment of this instability.