registrar
noun
reg·is·trar
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Definition of registrar
: 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
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Examples of registrar in a Sentence
got a copy of his transcript from the school's registrar
Recent Examples on the Web
The underlying lawsuit, Wednesday's post also reported, is seeking an order requiring Domain People, the registrar used to register DataBreaches.net, to block the domain. — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, "Blogger says she got an injunction for a post published five days earlier," 8 Aug. 2019 The Registry’s lapse prompted Erin Deveney, the longtime registrar at the Massachusetts RMV, to resign in late June. — Laura Crimaldi, BostonGlobe.com, "Truck driver was on drugs, reaching for drink at time of fatal New Hampshire crash, report says," 1 Aug. 2019 But for those who vote by mail (now a majority of the state’s electorate), that request takes a remarkably analog form: a postcard signed and sent to the county registrar of voters. — Ben Christopher, The Mercury News, "A million independent voters risk being irrelevant in California’s presidential primary," 24 June 2019 Nobody has voted in a Dehesa school board election since 2006; that was the last year the board had a contested election, according to county registrar of voters records. — Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, "Dehesa School District profited by cultivating charter schools," 23 June 2019 The signatures must be submitted by Aug. 8 to the office of the Alameda County registrar of voters, which has 30 days to verify them. — Catherine Ho, SFChronicle.com, "First San Francisco, now Livermore: Juul fights e-cigarette bans," 17 July 2019 Greece gotcha: The Sea Turtles hacking group breached Greece's top level domain registrar. — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, "In Apple We Trust—Cyber Saturday," 13 July 2019 The registrar called the police and had Goshdigian and Swarr removed. — Rebecca Lurye, courant.com, "Hartford registrar of voters penalized for calling police on residents observing absentee ballot counting," 11 July 2019 At a time when state government is demonstrably failing us in life-and-death ways, firing the registrar isn’t leadership; it’s theater. — Adrian Walker, BostonGlobe.com, "Who should own the failings of the Registry and the MBTA?," 2 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'registrar.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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More Definitions for registrar
registrar
noun
English Language Learners Definition of registrar
: someone who is in charge of keeping records especially of births, marriages, and deaths
: an officer of a college or university who is in charge of registering students and keeping academic records
British
: a doctor who is training at a hospital to become a specialist in a particular field of medicine
See the full definition for registrar in the English Language Learners Dictionary
registrar
noun
reg·is·trar
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\
Medical Definition of registrar
1
: an admitting officer at a hospital
registrar
noun
reg·is·trar
| \ ˈre-jə-ˌsträr
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Legal Definition of registrar
: an official recorder or keeper of records
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