registrar
7
6.7
- noun
- /ˈrɛdʒɪstrɑr/
- Formal
:
secretario académico
- Students are required to submit their enrollment forms to the registrar at the start of each semester.
- the registrar's office
- university registrar
- obtained from the registrar's
Examples
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A total of 172 undergraduate students completed an online questionnaire, and their GPAs were obtained from the registrar's office.
Academic text (2014) -
The registrar maintained accurate records of all student grades and course registrations.
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Alice is the registrar at a small technical college in northern New England.
Academic text (1995) -
Data were extracted from student records kept by the office of the registrar at a German school of music.
Academic text (2014) -
The next day I went to the registrar's office and officially dropped out.
Fiction book (2000) -
Another group of students went to the program registrar, rather than to the professor, to find out midterm grades.
Academic text (1990) -
A list of 23,990 undergraduate student e-mail addresses was obtained from the registrar's office.
Academic text (2014) -
According to registrar records, approximately 2,700 students were enrolled in web-based undergraduate courses at the university.
Academic text (2007) -
To validate self-reported data, student GPA and credits were obtained from the registrar's office.
Academic text (2014) -
Before graduating, I needed to clear all requirements with the registrar to ensure my diploma would be issued.
Synonyms
1
3.8
A person who writes and saves important official information in files
1
5.5
A person who manages teaching and research at a college or university
A person who keeps and updates an organization's official documents
How Senior
537
3.8
- Formal
7
6.7
- Specialized
220
5.7
- Specialized
88
4.5
42
2.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Registrar comes from the common word register, which meant 'a list' or 'to write down'. With the ending -ar it became 'a person who does that', so a university registrar is the person who keeps student lists and records.