0 an officer on a ship who deals with the ship's accounts, or a person on a passenger ship or aircraft who is responsible for taking care of passengers -- （輪船、飛機上的）管事，事務長
In the air, the purser may tell us that there is no smoking on board, but we will be offered inflight entertainment.
Suppose the shipowners say they want a purser, an engineer and a cook.
Surely the administration of one traditional tot of the "purser's bubbly" is not likely to plunge the sailors into the ravages of alcoholism.
Fuel for the pursers is now costing over £800 a week.
Broadly speaking, a purser needs to be making a minimum of £7,000 a week to pay its bare obligations.
When they got on board, their conduct continued in such a way that the purser found it necessary to have them removed below.
The former number does not include commissions granted to the pursers in vessels taken up as fleet auxiliaries, etc.
Those are the ships which do not carry pursers or other officers able to carry out pursers' functions, and where the master himself has to do all this work.
