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/ˈpɜːrsər/ · /ˈpɜːsə/
an officer on a ship who looks after money matters and helps with passengers' rooms and comfort.
事務長
複數 pursers
核心畫面
On a ship, the officer who keeps the purse — the money, the accounts, the paperwork — and who is also the one passengers go to about their cabin and their comfort. Not the one who steers; the one who runs the household side of the voyage.
可以想成：船上管「錢袋」的那位——帳目、單據、財務都歸他，同時乘客的艙房和生活大小事也找他。他不管開船，管的是這趟航…更多收起
可以想成：船上管「錢袋」的那位——帳目、單據、財務都歸他，同時乘客的艙房和生活大小事也找他。他不管開船，管的是這趟航程裡「家務」的那一面。這個字就是 purse（錢袋）加上表示人的 -er。原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Pursername
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A surname originating as an occupation for a maker of purses.
pursernoun/ˈpɝsɚ/
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The person responsible for handling the accounts on a ship, or for dealing with the passengers on a ship or aircraft.
- So the Comptroller and I thence to a tavern hard by, and there did agree upon drawing up some letters to be sent to all the pursers and Clerks of the Cheques to make up their accounts.
- There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.[…]Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place. Pushing men hustle each other at the windows of the purser's office, under pretence of expecting letters or despatching telegrams.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。