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Definition of registrar noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

registrar

noun
 
/ˌredʒɪˈstrɑː(r)/
 
/ˈredʒɪstrɑːr/
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  1. a person whose job is to keep official records, especially of births, marriages and deathsTopics Jobsc2
  2. the senior officer who organizes the affairs of a college or universityTopics Educationc2
  3. a doctor working in a British hospital who is training to become a specialist in a particular area of medicine
    • a paediatric registrar
    compare consultant, residentTopics Healthcarec2
    4. Word Originlate 17th cent.: from medieval Latin registrarius, from registrum, alteration of regestum, singular of late Latin regesta ‘things recorded’, from regerere ‘enter, record’.
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