reg·is·trar

(rĕj′ĭ-strär′, rĕj′ĭ-strär′)

1. One who is in charge of official records.

2. An officer in a college or university who keeps the records of enrollment and academic standing.

3. An officer of a corporation responsible for maintaining records of ownership of its securities.

4. An admitting officer in a hospital.

[Probably from registrary, from Medieval Latin registrārius, from registrum, register; see register.]

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registrar

(ˌrɛdʒɪˈstrɑː; ˈrɛdʒɪˌstrɑː)

1. a person who keeps official records

2. (Education) an administrative official responsible for student records, enrolment procedure, etc, in a school, college, or university

3. (Professions) an administrative official responsible for student records, enrolment procedure, etc, in a school, college, or university

4. (Medicine) Brit and NZ a hospital doctor senior to a houseman but junior to a consultant, specializing in either medicine (medical registrar) or surgery (surgical registrar)

5. (Professions) Brit and NZ a hospital doctor senior to a houseman but junior to a consultant, specializing in either medicine (medical registrar) or surgery (surgical registrar)

6. (Medicine) Austral the chief medical administrator of a large hospital

7. (Professions) Austral the chief medical administrator of a large hospital

8. (Banking & Finance) chiefly US a person employed by a company to maintain a register of its security issues

9. (Professions) chiefly US a person employed by a company to maintain a register of its security issues

ˈregistrarship n

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reg•is•trar

(ˈrɛdʒ əˌstrɑr)

n.

1. a person who keeps a record; an official recorder.

2. an official at a school or college who maintains students' records, issues reports of grades, mails out official publications, etc.

[1350–1400; earlier registrer, Middle English < Anglo-French (Old French registreur) < Medieval Latin registrātor=registrā(re) to register + -tor -tor; see -ar²]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	registrar - a person employed to keep a record of the owners of stocks and bonds issued by the company employee - a worker who is hired to perform a job
	2.	registrar - the administrator responsible for student records academic administrator - an administrator in a college or university
	3.	registrar - someone responsible for keeping records record-keeper, recorder functionary, official - a worker who holds or is invested with an office rapporteur - a recorder appointed by a committee to prepare reports of the meetings

Translations

مُسَجِّل، أمين السِّجِلات

matrikářodborný lékař

afdelingslægeregistrator

Standesbeamte

registrador

registraire

anyakönyvvezetõ

skrásetjarispítalalæknir; læknakandídat

segretario ufficiale dell'anagrafe ufficiale di stato civile medico che si specializza

folkeregister registerfører reservelege

matrikárodborný lekár

kayıt/sicil memurustajyer ile uzman arası doktor

登记员见习医生记录者

registrar

[ˌredʒɪsˈtrɑːʳ] N

1. [of births, marriages, deaths] → secretario/a m/f del registro civil

2. (Univ) → secretario/a m/f general

3. (Med) → interno/a m/f

4. [of society] → secretario/a m/f

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registrar

[ˌrɛdʒɪˈstrɑː^r ˈrɛdʒɪstrɑː^r] n

(= recorder of births, marriages, deaths) → officier m de l'état civil

(at university) → secrétaire mf général

(= hospital doctor) → chef mf de cliniqueregistrar's office n (British) (= registry office) → bureau m de l'état civil

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registrar

n (Brit) (Admin) → Standesbeamte(r) m → /-beamtin f; (Univ) → höchster Verwaltungsbeamter, höchste Verwaltungsbeamtin, ˜ Kanzler(in) m(f); (Med) → Krankenhausarzt m → /-ärztin f; to be married by the registrar → sich standesamtlich trauen lassen

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registrar

[ˌrɛdʒɪsˈtrɑːʳ] n (of births, deaths, marriages) → ufficiale m di stato civile (Univ) → direttore m amministrativo (Med) medico ospedaliero superiore ad un interno
Registrar of Companies → Ufficio del Registro

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register

(ˈredʒistə) noun

(a book containing) a written list, record etc. a school attendance register; a register of births, marriages and deaths.

verb

1. to write or cause to be written in a register. to register the birth of a baby.

2. to write one's name, or have one's name written, in a register etc. They arrived on Friday and registered at the Hilton Hotel.

3. to insure (a parcel, letter etc) against loss in the post.

4. (of an instrument, dial etc) to show (a figure, amount etc). The thermometer registered 25C.

ˈregistered adjective

a registered letter.

ˌregiˈstrar (-ˈstraː) noun

1. a person whose duty it is to keep a register (especially of births, marriages and deaths).

2. in the United Kingdom etc one of the grades of hospital doctors.

ˈregistry – plural ˈregistries – noun

an office or place where registers are kept.

register office / registry office

an office where records of births, marriages etc are kept and where marriages may be performed.

registration number (also licence number)

the letters and numbers which a car, bus etc has on a plate at the front and rear.

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"Your excellency, the Director of the Registrar's Department has sent for instructions...

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On the platform we found Monsieur de Marquet and his Registrar, who represented the Judicial Court of Corbeil.

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On such an afternoon the various solicitors in the cause, some two or three of whom have inherited it from their fathers, who made a fortune by it, ought to be--as are they not?--ranged in a line, in a long matted well (but you might look in vain for truth at the bottom of it) between the registrar's red table and the silk gowns, with bills, cross-bills, answers, rejoinders, injunctions, affidavits, issues, references to masters, masters' reports, mountains of costly nonsense, piled before them.

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His days being spent at a great office in the city, he got leave of absence for a couple of hours, met his wife, went with her to the registrar's, returned to his office, worked the rest of the day as usual, and then went to his new home to find his wife and dinner awaiting him,--all just as it was going to be every night for so many happy years.

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When he was appointed Registrar at Thomas's I hadn't a chance of getting on the staff.

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and so cold that the pen of the registrar of the parliament froze every three words, in the Grand Chamber!

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No later than next afternoon my man turned up to tell me that the fellow had married his landlady's daughter at a registrar's office that very day at 11.30 a.m., and had gone off with her to Margate for a week.

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At ten o'clock in the morning the Sieur de la Coste, ensign in the king's Guards, followed by two officers and several archers of that body, came to the city registrar, named Clement, and demanded of him all the keys of the rooms and offices of the hotel.

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In those uncivilized days, the Marriage Act had not been passed, and there was no convenient hymeneal registrar in England to change a vagabond runaway couple into a respectable man and wife at a moment's notice.

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He dismissed the old registrar and the clerk, and in their place installed better-educated men, who worked far harder, moreover, than their predecessors had done.

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To the Registrar of the Sub-District in which the undermentioned death took place.--I hereby certify that I attended Lady Glyde, aged Twenty-One last Birthday; that I last saw her on Thursday the

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I must refer you to the Registrar of the District in which the humble dwelling was situated, for the certified cause of death; but early sorrow and anxiety may have had to do with it, though they may not appear in the ruled pages and printed forms.

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