| 单词 | purser-general |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspurser-general purser-general n. now historical a person having overall charge of a body of pursers, or of finances throughout a district or service. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > [noun] > one who has charge of or manages money > others almonera1400 purser-general1633 eleemosynary1656 Town's Husbanda1749 camerlengo1753 purser1814 1633 Consultation 5 Apr. in W. Foster Eng. Factories in India, 1630–1633 (1910) 298 Thomas Turner..is to succeed Joyce as Purser-General and Member of Council. 1657 T. Maynard Let. 26 Mar. in Coll. State Papers J. Thurloe (1742) VI. 118 If somebody were joined with the purser-generall by an order from his highnesse,..there would be much money saved. 1676 Consultation 3 Nov. in Jrnl. & Proc. Asiatic Soc. Bengal (1918) 14 14 The Purser Generall or paymaster at Hugly..to take charge of all expenses in the Factory. 1925 J. R. Tanner Mr. Pepys 176 On November 8, 1664, Mr. Lever the purser-general sent Mrs. Pepys ‘a pair of silver candlesticks’. < as lemmas |
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