registrar

noun

reg·​is·​trar ˈre-jə-ˌsträr 

: an official recorder or keeper of records: such as

a

: an officer of an educational institution responsible for registering students, keeping academic records, and corresponding with applicants and evaluating their credentials

b

: an admitting officer at a hospital

c

chiefly British : resident sense 3

Synonyms

• clerk
• register
• scribe
• secretary

Examples of registrar in a Sentence

got a copy of his transcript from the school's registrar

Recent Examples on the Web

Google’s blog post notes that it’s already submitted around 300 takedown requests in relation to these scammers, but wants them to be prevented from setting up future malicious domains, and wants them to be disabled with US domain registrars. —Jon Porter, The Verge, 13 Nov. 2023

The tech giant is seeking an order to stop scammers from setting up fake profiles and wants the ability to disable the fake pages with U.S. domain registrars, and is suing the scammers for trademark infringement and breach of contract. —Britney Nguyen, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023

And despite threats to do otherwise, protesters mostly stayed away from the vote count at the registrar’s office in the old Montgomery Ward building in downtown Redding. —Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2023

Elections Commissioner Susan Beals said officials were directing relevant registrars around the state to reinstate the voters and send them new voting cards. —Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2023

Under more expansive voting laws passed by Democrats, all absentee ballots postmarked by Tuesday and received by the local registrar’s office by noon Friday will be counted. —Antonio Olivo, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2023

The registrar’s office suspended the duplicate ballot in its system, notified voters and told them to return either ballot and destroy the other. —Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Nov. 2023

Related:Why East McKinney has higher percentage of renters than city overall Alma has worked at Webb Elementary — located two blocks from her home — for 20 years, first as a classroom bilingual aid and as a registrar for the past 17. —Haeven Gibbons, Dallas News, 28 Aug. 2023

The Republican Party argued that the mistake invalidated all the signatures on that page, bringing the total number of signatures under 125, and that Eric Spicer, the Fairfax County general registrar and director of elections, had incorrectly approved St. John-Cunning’s petition for candidacy. —Karina Elwood, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2023

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Word History

Etymology

alteration of Middle English registrer, from registren to register, from Anglo-French registrer, from Medieval Latin registrare, from registrum

First Known Use

1571, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

registrar

noun

reg·​is·​trar ˈrej-ə-ˌsträr 

: an official who records or keeps records

Medical Definition

registrar

noun

reg·​is·​trar ˈrej-ə-ˌsträr 

1

: an admitting officer at a hospital

2

British : resident

Legal Definition

registrar

noun

reg·​is·​trar ˈre-jə-ˌsträr 

: an official recorder or keeper of records