registrar

1 a person employed to keep a record of the owners of stocks and bonds issued by the company

2 the administrator responsible for student records

3 someone responsible for keeping records [syn: record-keeper, recorder]

English

Etymology

From registrarius.

Noun

1. An official keeper, or recorder of records.
2. An officer in a university who keeps enrollment and academic achievement records.
3. An officer in a hospital who records admissions.
4. a service that manages domain names.

Portuguese

Verb

registrar

1. to register, to record.

Spanish

Etymology

From registro.

Verb

registrar

1. to register, to record.
2. to examine, to inspect, to search

Conjugation

es-conj-ar registr

A registrar is an official keeper of records, and may refer to:

In education:

• Registrar (academic), an official who handles student records

In civil government:

• Registrar General, responsible for the registration of births, deaths and marriages in England and Wales
• Registrar General of Canada, responsible for registering all documents issued under the Great Seal of Canada
• Registrar of Companies, for England, Wales & Scotland, deals with all document filings relating to the 1985 Companies Act
• Recorder of deeds, the government office tasked with maintaining a record of real estate ownership

In church government:

• Registrar (Church of England), an official serving on either the Consistory Court or the Chancery Court

In medicine:

• Specialist registrar, a medical doctor in the UK receiving advanced training in a specialist field
• Specialty Registrar (StR), new training grade intended to replace Specialist registrar

In computing:

• Domain name registrar, a company authorized to register Internet domain names
• Drop registrar, a domain name registrar who registers expiring Internet domain names
• Pool Registrar, in Reliable Server Pooling
• SIP registrar, in the Session Initiation Protocol

See also

• Registry (disambiguation)
• Register (disambiguation)
• General Register Office (disambiguation)

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