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registrar

registrar

1 7.0
A person or company who keeps the list of owners of a company's shares and bonds
  • noun
  • /ˈrɛdʒɪstrɑr/
  • Specialized
translation icon : registrador de accionistas
  • It's important to keep your contact information updated with the registrar to ensure you receive important announcements.

Examples

  • A lot of people get married at City Hall because it is a beautiful building, and the registrar just happens to be there too.

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  • The best thing to do would be to contact the host and the registrar.

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  • And the names listed are often not the names recorded with the registrar.

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  • The company hired a new registrar to manage the records of stockholders and bondholders.

  • To transfer ownership of your stocks, you must submit the paperwork to the registrar of your firm.

Synonyms

clerk
vsregistrar
273 2.5

A person who keeps records and does office tasks

handles ownership records for securities, not general office work
record-keeper
vsregistrar
1 3.8

A person who writes and saves important official information in files

focuses specifically on owners of stocks and bonds rather than general records
recordist
vsregistrar
  • Formal
6.2

A person who keeps and updates an organization's official documents

is specific to keeping owners records of stocks and bonds

Surface Forms

registrar singular
registrars plural

Morphology

registrar = register (transparent) = register + ar

The financial sense is an agentive specialization of 'register' referring to a record-keeper for securities.

Etymology

Registrar comes from the word register, meaning 'a list' or 'to write down', and the ending -ar makes it a person or company who keeps that list. So a company registrar keeps the official list of who owns shares or bonds.