Word Meanings - REGISTRAR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who registers; a recorder; a keeper of records; as, a registrar of births, deaths, and marriages. See Register, n., 3.

Related words: (words related to REGISTRAR)

• REGISTERING
  Recording; -- applied to instruments; having an apparatus which registers; as, a registering thermometer. See Recording.
• REGISTRAR
  One who registers; a recorder; a keeper of records; as, a registrar of births, deaths, and marriages. See Register, n., 3.
• REGISTERSHIP
  The office of a register.
• REGISTRARY
  A registrar.
• KEEPER
  1. One who, or that which, keeps; one who, or that which, holds or has possession of anything. 2. One who retains in custody; one who has the care of a prison and the charge of prisoners. 3. One who has the care, custody, or superintendence of
• RECORDER
  A kind of wind instrument resembling the flageolet. "Flutes and soft recorders." Milton. (more info) 1. One who records; specifically, a person whose official duty it is to make a record of writings or transactions. 2. The title of the
• REGISTRARSHIP
  The office of a registrar.
• RECORDERSHIP
  The office of a recorder.
• KEEPERSHIP
  The office or position of a keeper. Carew.
• DEATHSMAN
  An executioner; a headsman or hangman. Shak.
• OUTKEEPER
  An attachment to a surveyor's compass for keeping tally in chaining.
• INNKEEPER
  An innholder.
• POUNDKEEPER; POUND-KEEPER
  The keeper of a pound.
• CROWKEEPER
  A person employed to scare off crows; hence, a scarecrow. Scaring the ladies like a crowkeeper. Shak.
• CASH REGISTER
  A device for recording the amount of cash received, usually having an automatic adding machine and a money drawer and exhibiting the amount of the sale.
• BOOKKEEPER
  One who keeps accounts; one who has the charge of keeping the books and accounts in an office.
• SELF-REGISTERING
  Registering itself; -- said of any instrument so contrived as to record its own indications of phenomena, whether continuously or at stated times, as at the maxima and minima of variations; as, a self-registering anemometer or barometer.
• SHOPKEEPER
  A trader who sells goods in a shop, or by retail; -- in distinction from one who sells by wholesale. Addison.
• HOUSEKEEPER
  1. One who occupies a house with his family; a householder; the master or mistress of a family. Locke. 2. One who does, or oversees, the work of keeping house; as, his wife is a good housekeeper; often, a woman hired to superintend the servants
• DOORKEEPER
  One who guards the entrance of a house or apartment; a porter; a janitor.
• BARKEEPER
  One who keeps or tends a bar for the sale of liquors.
• GAMEKEEPER
  One who has the care of game, especially in a park or preserve. Blackstone.