bursary

noun
🔊/ˈbɜːsəri/
🔊/ˈbɜːrsəri/
(plural bursaries)
(especially British English)
jump to other results
  1. an amount of money that is given to somebody so that they can study, usually at a college or university(通常指大学的)奖学金 synonym grant, scholarshipTopics Educationc2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • sports
    • travel
    verb + bursary
    • award somebody
    • offer somebody
    • provide somebody with
    See full entry
    Word Originlate 17th cent. (in the sense of the bursar's room in a school or college): from medieval Latin bursaria, from bursa ‘bag, purse’, from Greek bursa ‘leather’.