bursarynoun [ C ]
uk/ˈbɜː.sər.i/us/ˈbɝː.sɚ.i/UKan amount of money given to a person by an organization, such as a university, to pay for them to study
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Grants & allowances
- all expenses paid idiom
- allowance
- benefit
- civil list
- cost-of-living allowance
- dearness allowance
- endowment
- expense account
- featherbed
- freeship
- fringe benefit
- housekeeping
- redundancy payment
- scholarship
- stabilizer
- subsidize
- subsidy
- travel expenses
- unemployment
- unemployment benefit
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Examples from literature
- He gained a bursary at Aberdeen, where he studied.
- He was a peasant lad, a penniless bursary student at Edinburgh University.
- There he was considered an excellent Latin scholar, and gained high honour by a contest with a candidate twice as old as himself, by which he obtained a bursary.