Bursar vs. Clerk — What's the Difference?

A bursar (derived from "bursa", Latin for purse) is a professional financial administrator in a school or university. In the United States, bursars usually exist only at the level of higher education (four-year colleges and universities) or at private secondary schools.

A clerk ( or ) is a white-collar worker who conducts general office tasks, or a worker who performs similar sales-related tasks in a retail environment. The responsibilities of clerical workers commonly include record keeping, filing, staffing service counters, screening callers, and other administrative tasks.

An official in charge of funds, as at a college or university; a treasurer.

A person employed in an office or bank to keep records, accounts, and undertake other routine administrative duties

The treasurer of a university, college or school.

A receptionist in a hotel

A student funded by a bursary.

A member of the clergy.

A treasurer, or cash keeper; a purser; as, the bursar of a college, or of a monastery.

A literate or scholarly person.

A student to whom a stipend or bursary is paid for his complete or partial support.

Work as a clerk

The treasurer at a college or university

A person who works in an office performing such tasks as keeping records, attending to correspondence, or filing.

A person who keeps the records and performs the regular business of a court, legislative body, or municipal district.

(Law) A law clerk, as for a judge.

A person who works at a sales counter or service desk, as at a store or hotel.

A cleric.

(Archaic) A scholar.

To work or serve as a clerk

One who occupationally provides assistance by working with records, accounts, letters, etc.; an office worker.

A salesclerk; a person who serves customers in a store or market.

A law clerk.

An employee at a hotel who deals with guests.

(Quakerism) A facilitator of a Quaker meeting for business affairs.

(archaic) In the Church of England, the layman that assists in the church service, especially in reading the responses (also called parish clerk).

(dated) A cleric or clergyman (the legal title for clergy of the Church of England is "Clerk in Holy Orders", still used in legal documents and cherished by some of their number).

(obsolete) A scholar.

To act as a clerk, to perform the duties or functions of a clerk

A clergyman or ecclesiastic.

A man who could read; a scholar; a learned person; a man of letters.

A parish officer, being a layman who leads in reading the responses of the Episcopal church service, and otherwise assists in it.

One employed to keep records or accounts; a scribe; an accountant; as, the clerk of a court; a town clerk.

An assistant in a shop or store.

An employee who performs clerical work (e.g., keeps records or accounts)

A salesperson in a store

Work as a clerk, as in the legal business