Usually means: Officer managing ship's financial matters.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word Purser:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. purser: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. purser: Merriam-Webster
  3. purser: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. purser: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. purser: Collins English Dictionary
  6. purser: Vocabulary.com
  7. Purser, purser: Wordnik
  8. purser: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Purser, purser: Wiktionary
  10. purser: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. purser: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. purser: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Purser, purser: Dictionary.com
  14. purser: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Purser: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Purser: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. purser: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. purser: Rhymezone
  19. Purser: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. purser: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. purser: FreeDictionary.org
  22. purser: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. purser: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. purser: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. purser: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. purser: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. PURSER, PURSER, PURSER: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  2. Purser: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Purser)

noun:  The person responsible for handling the accounts on a ship, or for dealing with the passengers on a ship or aircraft.
noun:  A surname originating as an occupation for a maker of purses.

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