bursary
noun/ˈbɜːsəri/
/ˈbɜːrsəri/
(plural bursaries)
(especially British English)- an amount of money that is given to somebody so that they can study, usually at a college or university synonym grant, scholarshipTopics Educationc2Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
- sports
- travel
- award somebody
- offer somebody
- provide somebody with
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Word Originlate 17th cent. (in the sense of the bursar's room in a school or college): from medieval Latin bursaria, from bursa ‘bag, purse’, from Greek bursa ‘leather’.Definitions on the go
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