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registrars

plural of registrar
as in clerks
an official whose job is to keep records got a copy of his transcript from the school's registrar

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Recent Examples of registrars Advertisement For the next several years, activists knocked on the doors of sharecroppers and drove folks to county registrars’ offices, often facing denials or delays, arrests, and violence. Time, 12 Sep. 2025 Traditional registrars also face disintermediation threats and may resist integration efforts that could reduce their control over lucrative renewal fees. Sean Lee, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
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Noun
  • The courthouse is named after Osvaldo Soto, a Cuban-American lawyer who led the fight in the 1980s to repeal the county’s English-only ordinance that, among other things, stopped clerks from conducting courthouse weddings in Spanish.
    Douglas Hanks November 10, Miami Herald, 10 Nov. 2025
  • The clerks inserted memory sticks from the tabulators with results from their local election into the laptop and a program transmitted them to the county through a dedicated, secured network.
    Christina Hall, Freep.com, 8 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • There’s Staten Island — working class, the world of the secretaries, the world that takes the ferry in to the financial district in New York.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Trump’s Cabinet secretaries at the time resisted wholesale cuts, and few of the plans reached fruition.
    Andy Kroll, ProPublica, 20 Oct. 2025

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“Registrars.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/registrars. Accessed 30 Nov. 2025.

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