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Get to know Purser better with 9 real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like officer.

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Purser in a sentence

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Purser meaning

The person responsible for handling the accounts on a ship, or for dealing with the passengers on a ship or aircraft.

Synonyms of Purser

officer ship's officer

Using Purser

  • The main meaning on this page is: The person responsible for handling the accounts on a ship, or for dealing with the passengers on a ship or aircraft.
  • Useful related words include: officer, ship's officer.
  • In the example corpus, purser often appears in combinations such as: shannon purser.

Context around Purser

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 19.1 words
  • Position in the sentence: 4 start, 1 middle, 4 end
  • Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Purser

  • In this selection, "purser" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 19.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, shannon, joshua, aka, prosecuting and street stand out and add context to how "purser" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include actress shannon purser meanwhile leapt and and shannon purser who played. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "purser" sits close to words such as aargau, abacos and abboud, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with purser

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Our purser is stabbed. (4 words)

Joshua Purser, prosecuting, said: 'He had no verbal communication skills whatsoever. (11 words)

Shannon Purser aka Barb from Stranger Things was in for a tattoo! (12 words)

John Charles Smith was an alcoholic; he abandoned the family and died on February 11, 1898, from a fatal blood clot caused by a workplace accident when he was a purser with Niagara Steamship. (34 words)

Actress Shannon Purser, meanwhile, leapt to the defence of her Stranger Things co-star after he was criticised for not stopping for photographs outside his hotel. (26 words)

Platoon Chief Colin Shewell says they received a call about a blaze at a townhouse on Purser Street around 11 a.m. (22 words)

Shannon Purser aka Barb from Stranger Things was in for a tattoo! (12 words)

Example sentences (9)

His broadcasting career came after national service in the Royal Air Force and stints working as a purser on ocean liners.

Shannon Purser aka Barb from Stranger Things was in for a tattoo!

Joshua Purser, prosecuting, said: 'He had no verbal communication skills whatsoever.

Platoon Chief Colin Shewell says they received a call about a blaze at a townhouse on Purser Street around 11 a.m.

Our purser is stabbed.

Actress Shannon Purser, meanwhile, leapt to the defence of her Stranger Things co-star after he was criticised for not stopping for photographs outside his hotel.

And Shannon Purser — who played the breakout fan-favorite on Netflix’s sci-fi juggernaut — knows that better than anyone.

He was a languages teacher who may also have served in the Royal Navy as an able seaman and purser's steward.

John Charles Smith was an alcoholic; he abandoned the family and died on February 11, 1898, from a fatal blood clot caused by a workplace accident when he was a purser with Niagara Steamship.

Common combinations with purser

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "purser" in a sentence?
An example: "His broadcasting career came after national service in the Royal Air Force and stints working as a purser on ocean liners." This page contains 9 example sentences with the word "purser" from authentic English texts.
What does "purser" mean?
Purser means: The person responsible for handling the accounts on a ship, or for dealing with the passengers on a ship or aircraft.
What are synonyms of "purser"?
Common synonyms of "purser" include: officer, ship's officer.
How many example sentences with "purser" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 9 example sentences with "purser", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.